Country | Funding Source | Characteristics | Service Providers |
Canada | Provincial, territorial, and Federal budget: payable through insurance policy | -Universal health care based on residency except tourist and visitors. -Medically necessary health care excluding, long term and some others -Universal, inclusive, and portable insurance policy -Non-for-profit based and free of cost -On average 70% of cost | Primary health care: community health center/ general practitioner (GP) Territory health care: general hospital and specialized hospitals |
Private Funding: Out of pocket, private insurance, and others | -30% cost borne by private sources, uncovered part of the government -Non-for-profit based | -Do- | |
India | State, union territorial and central government payable through salary of the doctor, nurse and staffs, medicine, diagnostics lab test and other expenditure | -Universal health care based on residency -free of cost public health care -need based health care -coverage 20% | -Primary: Community health care, AYUSH -Secondary: District level Hospital, 300 beds Hospitals -Tertiary: General and specialized hospital |
Private financing (investment) in health care: out of pocket, insurance, and others | -For-profit based private health care -80 % coverage | -Own hospitals, diagnostics labs in urban areas, |