ARGENTINA |
No |
Yes It incorporated competition among entities through the choice of workers between social work and private insurance and stimulated the expansion of prepaid medicine companies. |
High decree High degree of decentralization for 24 provinces and some municipalities. |
Tripartite Low coordination among the three subsectors: social insurance (which covers most of the population), the public sector (in charge of the provinces) and the private sector, each with its own financing and provision of services with universal coverage. |
Low Low or zero integration of general incomes and social security contributions. |
Segmented Social security for workers’ health is operated by social works and charges 6% of workers’ wages (6%) and employers (3%) by payroll. Includes domestic workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse). It does not include informal or self-employed. |
BRAZIL |
No |
Yes It stimulates privatization through the purchase of more complex services from the private sector, which has the largest number of hospital beds, in addition to exemption for users of health plans and private services. |
High decree Very high degree of decentralization: federal government, 27 states and 5,507 municipalities (90% of them control primary care). |
Dual Some coordination between the public subsector divided into federal, state and municipal levels (financing and provision functions) and the complementary private subsector. |
High General rents and integrated systems from non-contributory financing. |
Universal It includes all formal, domestic and agricultural workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse) and informal or self-employed workers. |
CHILE |
Yes |
Yes It stimulated the privatization of the assurance and boosted private medical care. |
High decree High degree of decentralization: 28 regions and 342 communes (municipalities). |
Dual Coordinated, combining the public (social insurance) and private subsectors, with separate financing and provision functions (this majority of the public subsector, i.e. universal insurance). |
High Low or zero integration of general incomes and social security contributions. |
Universal for PHC and segmented for curative care It preserved the choice by formal workers between contributing 7% of salaries to private insurance (Isapres) or public insurance (Fonasa) through social contributions. Includes domestic workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse). Excludes informal or self-employed ones. |
COLOMBIA |
Yes |
Yes It stimulated privatization by promoting the participation of the private sector in the administration of social insurance resources and in the provision of health services. |
High decree High degree of decentralization: 32 departments and 524 municipalities (not complete). |
Quadripartite Coordinated, with a public subsector (social insurance, divided into contributory and non-contributory regime), a private subsector and a public (linked) subsector. |
High Low or zero integration of general incomes and social security contributions. |
Universal for PHC in implementation The Mandatory Health Plan was created (POS), consisting of a single package of health services for each individual. Includes domestic workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse). It does not include informal or self-employed and agricultural workers. |
PERU |
Yes |
Yes The Aseguramiento Universal en Salud (AUS), created through Law No. 29,344 2009 and implemented in the same year by a new Plan Esencial de Salud (PEAS –Basic Health Plan). The law established mandatory insurance and free access to health care residents of the country through the PEAS. The plan also determined the dissociation of safe functions and provision of health services, promoting the participation of private entities in the health system. |
Low degree Low degree of decentralization, from central government to 24 departments (20% in 2001); new plan decentralisation in 2005. |
Tripartite: Public, social and private insurance, lacking adequate coordination among the three subsectors, without or with low separation of functions. |
Low Low or zero integration of general incomes and social security contributions. |
Segmented The public sector, through the ministry of health and integral health insurance (SIS) network, predominantly serves the poor population that that is uncovered by a health insurance (about 54%). EsSalud serves formal workers, for optional individual insurance or collective insurance (made by the employer), covering 7 to 11 million people. It offers both services of high complexity and primary care. It includes all formal, domestic and agricultural workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse) and informal or self-employed workers. |
MEXICO |
Yes |
Yes Purchase of services by the public sector and incentive to hire private (still limited). |
Median degree From the federal government to all states, little for municipalities; decentralization |
Tripartite: social and private insurance, segmented without coordination. |
Low Low or zero integration of general incomes and social security contributions. |
Segmented In 2003, they created popular insurance with insufficient federal funding and a restricted package of services. It includes all formal, domestic and agricultural workers, pensioners and dependents (children and spouse) and informal or self-employed workers. |