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What lessons can Britain learn from health care systems in other countries? The market for health presents a number of market failures and equity issues which advocate a role for government in its provision. What role this is however, how precisely the government should attempt to tackle these problems is debatable. There exist a spectrum of approaches to both the financing and the provision of healthcare. Britain - along with Ireland, much of Scandinavia, Spain, Greece and Portugal - could be said to be "as public as it gets". It's approach is that of public provision, allocation and finance through the tax system, with a small private sector operating alongside it. At the other (private) extreme, Turkey has no dominant source of financing its health care system and has in place a mix of public and private providers. In-between, Canada, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand each operate a mixed system...

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