Canadian Healthcare System

Paper Summary:

The paper lists the five conditions the Canadian Health Act imposed on individual provinces and territories to qualify for funding for healthcare services. The paper discusses how funding for the provision of public health services is derived and points out the advantages the Canadian system has over the US system. The paper then identifies the problems and controversies with the Canadian Medicare system, notably, the increase in health expenditures, depleting funds for healthcare and the resultant long waiting list for healthcare services. The paper concludes that only time will tell if Canada can withstand financial pressures and continue to deliver its promise of universal healthcare without discrimination to every Canadian citizen.

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"Since the 1940s, Canada has succeeded in giving universal healthcare to all Canadians. Everyone, regardless of race, income, age or gender, or preexisting condition, is qualified for healthcare coverage. The Canadian healthcare system was promulgated province per province. In 1947, Sasketchewan was the first province to institute a publicly financed healthcare plan (Chua and Fellow, 2006). Ten years later, the Canadian government passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Service Act to share the cost of these expenses (Clement, 2007). By January 1971, all ten provinces and two territories have had public health insurance plans for all citizens. The Canadian healthcare system, also called Medicare, aims to guarantee all Canadians to receive necessary medical and hospital services, free of charge."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Canadian Healthcare. (2007). Canadian healthcare. [Online] Retrieved Feb. 7, 2008 from the Website: http://www.canadian-healthcare.org.
• Chua, K. & Fellow, J.R. (2006, May). Canadian Healthcare System Fact Sheet. [Online] Retrieved Feb. 7, 2008 from the Website: http://www.amsa.org/studytours/CHS_FactSheet.pdf.
• Clement, T. (2006). Canada Health Act Annual Report 2005-2006. [Online] Retrieved Feb. 6, 2008 from the Website: http://www.healthcanada.gc.ca/medicare.
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