- If Canada and the United States have a common market economy we would lose our free health care. There should be no worry about the cost of taxes for health care because it should be the same as the cost of private health care plus you get the benefit of peace of mind knowing you have helped people that can’t even afford health care. In our system we have no doctor bills and no hospital bills, and no one is excluded. But in U.S.A. their health care system only covers certain groups of people, but Canada’s covers everyone.…
This affects Canadians in a very big way because health care is already free and now there is even more care the government…
“Health Canada Inadvertently Discloses Facts Planned Parenthood Would Like to Suppress” an essay by Ted Byfield, a Western Canadian journalist and founder of an Alberta based magazine The Report. “Health Canada” appears to have logical strengths including a cause and effect argument supported by statistics and reference to authorities present on both sides of the case. One must look closer into the strengths and weakness’ of Byfield’s argument to see that although the statistics seem impressive, they in reality do not support his point. With this one can determine that his causal argument fails to be valid in assessing population decline.…
Another major difference is the fact of the government sanctions causing Canadian physicians to limit their use of tests and procedures. The biggest difference between Canada's health care system and the U.S. health care system is that…
The Medical care act provided free healthcare of any kind to every Canadian citizen, especially retired seniors and people that are unable to afford any kind of healthcare for whatever reason. Before the Medical Act was put in place in 1966, healthcare was looked at as a way for the government and other private businesses to make money when medical care should be about helping people in need of it. This States, “All of us in this corner have been looking forward to getting this legislation before us because we hope, at long last, we are going to be able to turn health care from being a business for profit as it has been under private agencies, into a service for the people of Canada”. (Hansard 7605) The government of any Country should never look at the healthcare of its people as a way to make a profit; it should be about insuring the safety and well being of its citizens. The medical care act shows that Prime Minister at the time Lester B Pearson has no intensions of making a profit from all the money that Canadians were paying for healthcare but had every intension of insuring that every Canadian citizen was financially taken care of when it came to healthcare purposes. No person’s income should determine how many healthcare services are available to…
I believe Canada should take steps to implement a separate public program for its growing senior population. It is projected that by 2036, the senior population would double to 10.4 million and to make roughly one quarter of the population. The aging population of Canada is living longer and are healthier compared to previous generations. Health Care in Canada, 2011: A Focus on Seniors and Aging describes that the aging population are contributing to the rising public-sector health care spending. The government needs to make some decisions in the future in regards to Canada’s health care system to accommodate increasing aging population and their needs. In 2009-2010, it is reported that 40% of acute hospital stays were for senior patients.…
The editorial primarily focuses on comparing Canada's healthcare system with the U.S. system, and uses many statistics. One statistic used to support their argument is that, "The U.S. spends far more on health care than any other country – 16.6 per cent of gross domestic product, compared to just 10 per cent in Canada. " The author's point in using this statistic is that the U.S. pays more money for worse healthcare. Another statistic used is that the amount of people without healthcare is equal to the population of Canada. The author also addresses the fact that Canadian healthcare is nowhere near perfect, and could improve, but is significantly better than the United…
The focus is to examine whether the aging population within Canada is the cause for the rise of health care costs. In 2011, Canada like other developed countries are undergoing a demographic shift where the Baby Boomer cohort with the first of them reaching 65 years of age and others follow (Evans, R., McGrail, K., Morgan, S., Barer, M., Hertzman, 2001). People believe that with this increase of aging population will lead to a rise of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita health expenditures and postulate that economy may not be able to sustain itself with this heavy demand on health care costs. Additionally, the media often portray that governments are in…
It was not until 1946 that the first Canadian province introduced near universal health coverage. Saskatchewan had long suffered a shortage of doctors, leading to the creation of municipal doctor programs in the early twentieth century in which a town would subsidize a doctor to practice there. Soon after, groups of communities joined to open union hospitals under a similar model. There had thus been a long history of government involvement in Saskatchewan health care, and a significant section of it was already controlled and paid for by the government. In 1946, Tommy Douglas' Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government in Saskatchewan passed the Saskatchewan Hospitalization Act, which guaranteed free hospital care for much of the population. Douglas had hoped to provide universal health care, but the province did not have the money.…
Dressel, Davis, Shoen, Shea, and Haran (2008) all argue that Canada has shown statistically that their health care system is better. According to Dressel, America spends more money on health care than Canada, but have higher infant mortality rates and an average lower life expectancy (p. 573). Canada and America used to be equal, but since Canada changed their system the numbers have changed, and they have pushed ahead. Davis, Shoen, Shea, and Haran explain that it is becoming harder for Americans to access quality care because of insurance rates (p. 3).…
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Health Care is right that should be granted to all Canadian, however health Care is accessible to health care is a privilege in Canada. Preston Manning former politician in Canada once said, “Waiting for lines at a certain point is an infringement of your constitutional right to life. You don’t have a constitutional obligation to suffer and die in a waiting line waiting for publicly administered healthcare if there are other options.” This is the reality in the Canadian medical system, where there is concern regarding Canadians receiving awful treatment for the amount of taxes they are paying to the government. In this terrible process, you have to wait for hours before you can be treated due to the massive shortages of doctors in the country.…
In Canada we have our great health care system. Even if you don’t qualify for the regular health care coverage you can still get the coverage from a different package. This is an effective thing which the Canadian government is doing because the government is ensuring that people with different wages and people from different cultures get the proper health care and health care coverage. Another thing that makes the government more effective because of the housing plans. The plans can help people from any where including the Aboriginal people, Canadians and new comers afford a house so they can have a sustainable life style in Canada. The government also has many plans and pack ages for immigration, income assistance and legal assistance. Immigration the government has offered 5 programs which are citizenship program, host program immigration loans, permanent resident program and right of permanent residence fee loan. With these programs for immigration Canada is becoming more multicultural and the programs are helping the immigrants live in Canada. In income assistance the government is giving people all types of benefits and insurances so if anything ever happens they will get the…
In Canada, and many other countries, the United States health care system is used as a model and as a warning against increasing Private sector involvement in financing health care. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Canada’s Socialized Health system is seen by both sides of the spectrum as a model to be followed. Although many describe Canada’s system as “socialized medicine,” the term is inaccurate. The Canadian system provides public funding for private delivery. Canadian hospitals are controlled by private boards and/or regional health authorities, rather than being part of the government.…
Like any other country, Canada has a unique healthcare system which includes some problems that need to be addressed. Although some problems have been addressed and solutions proposed, strengths and weaknesses still remain.…