Healthcare around the world

One of the countries in the world in which we can notice mixed economies is United States. In society which counts about 45,7 million people 15.3% do not have health insurances.
Federal government is largest health care insurer- involved in two main schemes, Medicaid and Medicare. Most doctors are in private practice and private hospitals.
US scored the highest place in expenditure on health % DGP. Their system make them independent, they can choose between many options- where, why they want to invest they many, but with this situation attached life expectancy and birth in US- is smaller than in other countries.

UK- has got also mixed economies, but there is just about 11% private health insurance. Private GP service very small. Health care free at point of delivery. There we can find free ambulance service and access to accident and emergency. United Kingdom just after infant morality per 1,000 live births in research.

The third one country is France with social insurance system. Public health insurance funded by compulsory social health insurance contributions form employers and employees with no option to opt out. Most peoples have extra private insurance and many make out of pocket payments to see a doctor. Doctors in public hospitals are salaried whilst those in private are paid on a fee-for service basis. In some of public hospitals doctors are allowed to treat patients in the hospital.
We can also say that is a mixed economies.

Last one is Singapore with dual system- private and public sectors. Public sector provides 80% of hospital care 20% primary care. They are financed by combination of taxes, employee medical benefits etc. It's a little bit different then in our country, because in Singapore patients expected to pat part of their medical expenses and to pay mare for higher level of service. We can say that this one system is also mixed economies, but in the other hand it could be also commanded economies.

SUMMARY

Charles Handy- born in 1932, now is regarded by many as the advanced management thinker in the world. He is an author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour. His one of his work was - "Motivation Calculus" which surpassed recent modern thinking about purpose of work, business etc.

After studies, which he graduated in Oxford, he worked for Shell International. During this time he became a protege of Warren Bennis ,the organisational and leadership guru.

His first book "Understanding Organisations" was well regarded for society. In one of his books he used a metaphor of the Greek Gods to explain different organizational cultures, f.ex- Zeus-power, Dionysus-individualism etc. The title of this book is "Gods Of Management", which was published in 1978.

Charles Handy is one of few person who seems to be able to predict trends and changes on a global and fundamental scale, he also identified that 'careers for life' were destined to become a thing of the past.

He has written many books, which became very popular in the world. He wasn't the type of person who relied on theories and diagrams

Why are newspapers, but not soft drinks, sold in vending machines that allow customers to take more than they paid for?

The answer is really logic, if there would be instead of newspapers- soft drinks, after small period of time, the vending machine would be empty. If you buy a newspaper you want just one, you don’t need another. There is no reason why somebody take more than one, but when is concerned with drink is different. Soft drink is more expensive, so if there is any possibility to take not one, but 3, 4 or more, why not? That something witch is important for as, our health, what we have to buy, the opposite is with newspaper, it’s just a “want”, you can live without it.
To sum up, we can say that drinks in vending machines is uneconomic for company.

Why do 24-hour convenience stories have lock on their doors?

The answer should be easy, when you want to buy the door, you don’t have to buy this one with lock, that true, but there are such situation that bull you to close them, like holiday, every events. If shop is open 24-hour every per day, that doesn't mean that he can be never closed. In Poland market, which function like this- open all day, they are close at night, there is only small window thought which you can buy things you need to buy, at night.
It is always better to have a lock, it’s more comfortable and useful.

Why are child safety seats required in cars but not in the airoplane

The easiest answer would be that in the aeroplane is to small space, and if just six person will have with them a special safety seat for their child, there probably would be to tightly. When you travel by your car, you have to concentrate on your drive, so child have to be in special seats, opposite to

an aeroplane when during the fly, suddenly can start the turbulence. But in this situation parents are near their kids, so they would be able to hold them, for they safety.

Strange question part2

Why do the keypad buttons of drive-up cash machines have braille dots?

My first idea for answer it was that they just have to , it's a matter of respect, but actually this machine use are drivers, none of them are blind. However, there exist in, but why? The producers made them just to not discriminate the rest of society, but i was also cheaper to make all machines the same way.

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Strange question

Why is there a light in your refrigerator, but not in your freezer?

Certainly, all of us have a fridge, we can see that the light is just in refrigerator, but not in freezer, that mean that we don't need light in this part of fridge. Normally, the door of refrigerator we open frequently than this from freezer. If we will have also a light in this second part of fridge we would have to pay more, because we use more electricity. This is just an extra costs, so I think that anybody would like to have it in their freezer.

DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?

Why are whales, but not chickens, in danger of extinction?

Firstly, we have to say that supply of chicken is much more higher that whales. Our society need a lot of chickens meat,but this is not a problem. In all country, there are many farms, so for next generation we have to wait just like 2 weeks, but with whales is completely different. First of all, we must to ascertain that we don't need, or we don't eat meat which come from whales. Also, life of one generation of this animal is much more expensive to maintain, than chicken one. For conclusion, we may say that supply of whales is inelastic, like water, petrol ect.

Why are brown eggs more expensive than white ones, in many countries?






In this days substitutes which are more rarely than others, are expensive. If the subject is concerned about eggs, the answer is really easy. How can we find it f.ex – in our super market we can see probably only white eggs, if we will find brown ones, that’s mean that this market is just very well equipped.
The most important point is this that our farm produce more white eggs, because they are cheaper and they are “produce” by a normal chicken, but the brown ones are from a special kind of chicken. If our economy want to change this situation of producing brown eggs, they have just to growth population of this kind of animal, then in our supermarket we would see more brown eggs.
In this question we can see that we don’t talk about all the countries in the world, but majority of them. It is because of that in some countries production of brown eggs is in the higher level than the rest.

TRY TO FIND AN ANSWER

DVDs are the same size as Cd's. So why is the size of the packaging different?

As we can see in our house, super market etc, the difference between this two packet is always the same, do we know why does it look like this?

Probably this situation is just because that DVD’s needs an advert on the packet, we can say that CD’s need it also, but less than a DVD’s packet- they have more pictures, information etc.

In the other hand, we can say that the “history” concerned different size of the packaging was created several years ago and this is just a tradition.

If we will look at this from an economics point of vieu, we could say that it is just a wonder to growth the gain.

Why do most popular book's and CD's sell for less than the least popular book's and CD's but we see the opposite in the cinema price.

In our days the number of peoples who goes to the cinema have growth, probably just because of that our society is more humanistic, or just want to be. So I think that is normal that cinema launching to growth the price of the ticket.

If it is concerned about books and Cd's, the demand for them is smaller. Today if I want to hear a special kind of music, a CD of a band which do I like, I can take it from the net, there are lots of special site from where do we can downland them. The another thing is with books, if they are popular, they are project in the cinema, so more of society don’t need at all to buy them. The opposite is with least popular book, because people want to read it, so the sell for them growth.

Break even

Important formula
Fixed costs/unit contribution


Unit contribution = selling price - variable costs

There is break even simulator

WHY?

Have you ever noticed that in every pubs in the world peanuts are free, but if you want water you have to pay?. I think that this look like this just because peanuts are salty and after when you will eat it, your organism probably will need to drink something. This isn't the only way to answer this question. In the other hand, peanuts are the "partner" of beer, so conclusion of it could be like this - if there would be enough of peanuts, peoples for sure would buy more beer ;)

aggregate demand

Today we talked about aggregate demand
AD = G + C + I (X - M)
We need to know the four macroeconomics aims of government policy.
1. reduce unemployment
2. reduce inflation
3. balance of payment
4. growth
There are three policies
1. fiscal
2. monetary policy
3. supply side
There are five key diagrams and they all use aggregate demand and aggregate supply

Why cabs has got different colours in other towns?

We can see that there is a lot of variety concerned of colours of cabs in our world, f.ex in New York we can find just yellow cabs, there is no possibility to find them somewhere else. In UK is the same, in London are only black ones, in special models. Special cabs we can see in Barcelona- black & yellow taxi etc. There are many examples of this event.

Why is it like this?

I think, that the answer isn't difficult. To understand it properly, we can compare cabs to the architecture, traditional food & clothes etc. Cabs just are something which character our capital/country. If we will think about New York, probably the first picture in our mind , likelihood we will see the yellow cabs, does it strange?

Have you ever thought before about how does Facebook make money?

Probably, all of users of the Internet have ever noticed any advertisements that exist on the side of the page. Precisely, this advert make money, because companies pay Facebook a big fee for these advert that reach millions of peoples on this site a day.

Today, Facebook is a free service. For the first argument to stay free is that the company can generate money through these advertisements, for the second, we have to think if peoples would pay every times when they will want to use this site, I am sure that NOT. If it's free everybody can and want to have f.ex. his own profile/blog etc.

The Facebook cooperation makes money off the advertisements that they have plastered throughout their entire social website.
We have to remember also that the fact that Facebook is making any money might come as a surprise to some, contrary to some the social networking sites that have real money.

One of the most important think that make the many are gifts and other virtual property that users can buy and give each other, f.ex Myspace was boasting that and it was making almost $1m a day, just for selling adverts on their homepage. This fact can be funny, but this is a true history, the same is with Facebook.

Do you know how does Facebook make money?

If you are one of the users of this site, you should know it.

Why is Facebook more popular than Google?

In our days Facebook become one of the most visited website, the worst calamity is in the United States, were million of peoples turn to the social networking site to play online games. where there is more than 400 million of regular users. This event is not only weighted in US, but also in more countries. One of the most chocking information is that not only teenager's used to use it for all days, but also oldest peoples, isn't strange?

Now, come back to our question, why Facebook is more popular?

This site is just more popular in US where the market share of visits increased 185 per cent last week comparing in the same week in 2009. During this same period of time Google.com increased just 9 per cent.

I have to underline one really important aspect, situation where Facebook site is more popular than Google ones is just in the US, in the UK is always a distance between this to network. Maybe because of that Google's market share of Internet search is so much greater.

In my opinion, popularity of using Facebook will stop in some years, as I remember this same was with Myspace.com and other websites.

Why do female models earn so much more than male models?

Why do it looks like it?
At the lest times media abounds stories of earnings witch is based on gender.
But there are some reason, i think that nobody seams to be upset about this fact.

I have to noted that female models have to do much more work, than male models, f.ex. they have to wear more, sit in a hair and makeup chair for hours. With man it's less to do, it's less work.





In my opinion, this type of work is just one of the industry where women earn more than men. No one seems to cry out about the injustice.

lesson 1

We discussed about demand, supplies and equilibrium. If demand increases ten supplies extends. The interaction of demand and supplies if called the price mechanize


We also discussed opportunity cost. There is a video about this here , and another one below


We also talked about economic growth, unemployment and the balance of payments (in my text book this is chapter 4)

US industrial output rises again

I think that suprising is that the US industrial production has increased for the eighth month in a row, beating expectations of a fall.



Levels of production were "held down somewhat by winter storms in the Northeast" according to the Federal Reserve, which publishes the data.
Overall industrial output was up 0.1% in February, compared with January.
In the same period the manufacturing sector fell 0.2%, but the output of mines rose 2% and the index for utilities went up by 0.5%.
The production of consumer goods fell 0.4% in February, much of it because of a 4.4% decline in the car sector.


"The underlying trend in output is still rising," said chief of US economist at High Frequency Economics, explaining that surveys of the manufacturing sector point to stronger gains ahead.


"Whatever happens to the monthly numbers, the level of output is still hugely depressed relative to the pre-Lehman position."
Relative to a year ago, industrial production was 1.7% higher in February this year than February 2009.

Business

This is my first post about business.
This is a business I am interested in.