From: Are health care inequalities unfair? A study on public attitudes in 23 countries
Country/welfare state | Education (lower sec. school or less, %) | Income (lowest tertile, in US$, per month) | Self-rated health (fair/poor, %) | Health insurance coverage (not well covered, %) | Forgone care (yes, %) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | 28.7 | 2354 | 18.7 | 19.3 | 9.2 |
Great Britain | 49.4 | 1474 | 25.8 | 1.6 | 5.6 |
Israel | 36.5 | 870 | 18.3 | 15.7 | 8.9 |
United States | 11.4 | 1500 | 23.7 | 12.3 | 12.1 |
Liberal | 28.7 | 1481 | 21.2 | 13.5 | 9.6 |
Belgium | 32.9 | 1656 | 28.7 | 5.7 | 11.5 |
France | 48.2 | 1820 | 20.6 | 12.3 | 7.8 |
Germany | 11.7 | 1517 | 27.2 | 3.6 | 4.7 |
Netherlands | 48.1 | 1540 | 26.2 | 4.1 | 2.8 |
Switzerland | 19.7 | 4366 | 10.1 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
Conservative | 34.8 | 1750 | 23.5 | 6.9 | 7.0 |
Denmark | 9.1 | 3375 | 21.3 | 6.8 | 9.8 |
Finland | 19.2 | 2800 | 26.8 | 20.1 | 10.1 |
Norway | 28.3 | 4800 | 27.1 | 10.2 | 4.4 |
Sweden | 42.3 | 2667 | 11.0 | 13.0 | 3.7 |
Social-Democratic | 23.9 | 3375 | 22.4 | 13.1 | 6.9 |
Italy | 36.8 | 1307 | 39.0 | 23.8 | 7.3 |
Portugal | 64.1 | 617 | 49.7 | 27.8 | 11.0 |
Spain | 53.3 | 840 | 23.6 | 5.3 | 3.4 |
South European | 51.6 | 840 | 32.7 | 14.0 | 5.9 |
Japan | 21.0 | 1800 | 28.6 | 10.9 | 3.8 |
Korea (South) | 23.1 | 1179 | 19.8 | 11.5 | 6.3 |
Taiwan | 33.4 | 612 | 53.5 | 33.5 | 1.8 |
East Asian | 27.1 | 988 | 32.3 | 21.2 | 3.5 |
Czech Rep. | 39.1 | 784 | 24.6 | 17.5 | 2.4 |
Poland | 20.5 | 350 | 37.6 | 52.4 | 14.6 |
Slovak Rep. | 45.7 | 525 | 26.6 | 21.0 | 4.0 |
Slovenia | 39.1 | 840 | 30.7 | 13.5 | 1.3 |
East European | 36.5 | 588 | 29.2 | 24.9 | 4.7 |
Total | 33.7 | 1284 | 26.0 | 14.1 | 6.5 |