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[[es:sistema sanitario]]

A healthcare system is the organization by which an individual's [[healtcarehealt]] protection is provided.

Whilst from an economic perspective, healthcare may be viewed as just another product or service to be purchased by an individual, healthcare has many special characteristics that encourage government intervention to a greater or lesser extent:

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*Purely '''Private Enterprise''' health systems are comparatively rare. Where they exist, it is usually for a comparatively well-off subpopulation in a poorer country with a poorer standard of healthcare - for instance, private clinics for a small expatriate population in an otherwise poor country. But there is countries with a majority private healthcare system (liberal model) and residual public service ([[medicare]], [[medicaid]]).

*Another systems with majoritary public'''Public insuranceInsurance systemSystem''' are:

**[[Social security]] healthcare system, where the workers are insuranced.

**[[National health service]], where are the resident people is insuranced.