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This graphic illustrates two perspectives on the health care industry. The horizontal axis delineates how health care is paid for, with farther left being paid more by the government via taxes, and farther right being mostly private contributions by consumers. The vertical axis delineates who controls how health care is delivered, towards the bottom being more government control and towards the top being more private control.

In each quadrant is listed a representative health care system that exemplifies the extremes of the two adjacent metrics. The upper right hand quadrant contains free market medicine, where doctors determine who and how to treat, and patients pay for their treatment either directly or through private insurance plans. The upper left contains single payer health insurance, in which medical services are still provided by the private sector, but the government pays for the health care costs of its citizens with taxes. In the lower left is socialized medicine, where the government controls delivery of health care, either through direct employment of health care providers or through heavy regulation, and pays for the associated costs with taxes. In the lower right is government monopoly, which no implemented health care systems currently emulate, but has been used in other industries, such as the US postal service.

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2007-08-17, 2008-01-24

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en:User:Kborer, User:Stannered

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This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Kborer at the English Wikipedia project. This applies worldwide.

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Kborer grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:24, 24 January 2008		430×350 (9 KB)	Stannered (Talk \| contribs)	(trying to get image to render)
	14:18, 24 January 2008		430×350 (10 KB)	Stannered (Talk \| contribs)	(re-uploading to see if it fixes)
	14:13, 24 January 2008		430×350 (10 KB)	Stannered (Talk \| contribs)	({{Information \|Description=This graphic illustrates two perspectives on the health care industry. The horizontal axis delineates how health care is paid for, with farther left being paid more by the government via taxes, and farther right being mostly pri)