Health Care

Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.The National Health Service in the United Kingdom was the world's first universal health care system provided by government. Universal health care contrasts to the systems like health care in the United States or South Africa, though South Africa is one of the many countries attempting health care reform.

Health care systems
Purely private enterprise health care systems are comparatively rare. A Publicly funded health care model is where the residents of the country are insured by the State. Within this branch is Single-payer health care, which describes a type of financing system in which a single entity, typically a government run organisation, acts as the administrator (or "payer") to collect all health care fees, and pay out all health care costs. In practice this means that the government collects taxes from the public, businesses, etc., creates an entity to administer the supply of health care and then pays health care professionals. In almost every country with a government health care system a parallel private system is allowed to operate. This is sometimes referred to as two-tier health care.
World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised United Nations agency which acts as a coordinator and researcher for public health around the world.
Health care systems
Australia and New Zealand both have publicly funded health care systems, though under the Conservative government in Australia, there has been new funding and incentives for people who pay for private health insurance.
Medicare was introduced by the Whitlam Labor Government on 1 July 1975 through the Health Insurance Act 1973. All of Europe has publicly sponsored and regulated health care.
Health care in the Republic of Ireland
Health care in the Republic of Ireland is governed by the Health Act 2004, which established a new body to govern the national health service in the Republic of Ireland, the Health Service Executive. Currently the HSE is continuing to manage the health service under the Health Act 1970 structures.
Health care in Slovenia

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (the Institute) was founded on March 1, 1992, according to the Law on health care and health insurance, after declaring independence from Yugoslavia. The Institute conducts its business as a public institute, bound by statute to provide compulsory health insurance. The system provided the insured persons with a smart card and set up data links between the health care service providers and health insurance providers (the Health Insurance Institute and the two voluntary health insurance providers).
Health care in Switzerland is regulated by the Federal Health Insurance Act. Health insurance covers the costs of medical treatment and hospitalisation of the insured.