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- 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.…
Bryant T, Raphael D, Schrecker T, Labonté R 2011. Canada: A Land of Missed Opportunity for Addressing the Social Determinants of Health. Health Policy 101(2011): 44-58.…
“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.…
Canada is becoming a nation of two distinct groups, the aging and young. Due to the aging population, many Canadians are worried that it will have a negative snowball effect on the economy. Throughout the years, politicians have speculated that the aging population threatens the financial sustainability of Canada’s health care systems (e.g., Robson, 2001; Siegel, 1994). Based on true facts, population aging reduces the amount of personal income tax revenue, which accounts for approximately 30% of our government’s income. Per capita, healthcare costs increase with age, and also as age increases so does the demand for more expensive and longer healthcare treatments. Although Canada’s population is aging, and the effects of the “baby boomers” are taking place, the Canadian government has done a good job in accommodating financially for them since Ontario has recorded its third surplus in a row in healthcare budget. As in the past, this shows that our government is capable of efficiently managing their resources and funds. (Canada, 2012)…
The Canadian health care system, although flawed, is privilege. There are only a number of countries that has a similar healthcare system where basic health care needs are covered by the government (i.e. France, Denmark, Germany, UK, etc.), the rest have a privatized health care system where an individual would have to pay for each visit and procedure depending on the amount their insurance covers (i.e. USA, Philippines, etc.).…
As a Canadian nurse who has worked at several hospitals in Canada, it is apparent that our government funded hospitals leave much to be desired. The wait times in the emergency department stagger over several hours for illnesses that can be treated within minutes. Our emergency rooms are over loaded and we simply do not have the nursing or doctor staff to keep up with this demand. The issue is not only related to the growing and aging population; rather the core of the issue remains that most Canadians are without any family physicians covered by Medicare. Canada is facing a crisis. Timely access to health care services is getting progressively worse for Canadians. The single biggest reason for this is a severe shortage of health professionals. High on the list of those in short supply are family doctors. More than 4 million Canadians cannot find family physicians to care for them; compared to people with family physicians, those that have no family doctors are more vulnerable to prolonged wait times throughout the system and are less satisfied with the performance of all other health professionals, institutions, and governments (The College of Family Physicians of Canada, 2004, p.3). In response to this shortage of publicly funded physicians, I have decided to integrate a privately funded family medicine clinic. This clinic will allow patients quick and easy access to a family physician that can treat their minor emergencies as well as provide continued health care as needed. This organization is a growing trend. Today the discussion is not whether private health care should have a role in the system, but rather what role private health care will have (Mason, 2008, p.130). By integrating a privately funded family medicine clinic into Canadian society, it will not only decrease wait times in public hospitals and…
In this paper, I will evaluate Health Canada’s argument to the Ministry of Health that coalmining in Dunsmuir Coalmine, Belleville NS needs to be shut down as a moral good to the miners, in consideration of their health. I will argue, using virtue theory and utilitarian philosophy, that coalmining in the town should not be shut down, as shutting it down would not be ultimately beneficial to the miners and their families, and therefore would not be a moral good. Firstly, I will summarise Health Canada’s argument for the shutting down of the mines. I will then explicate the main points of virtue theory. Following that, I will argue that the tenets of virtue theory instead works in favor of letting the miners keep their job. As well, I will explain the utilitarian theory, and follow that by arguing that utilitarianism, as well, would favor the continued operation of the coalmines.…
The health care system in the United States has been a subject of criticism in terms of its effectiveness in the delivery. Arguably, the Canadian health care system model best suits the United States health care requirements. The United States and Canada had similar health care systems before Canada opted to reform its health care policies during the 1960’s and 70’s. Presently, the health care systems in the two countries are quite different, with the Canadian health care system consisting of a single payer, which is majorly publicly funded (Conklin, 2004). The health care system in the United States is a multi-payer system, which is mostly privately funded. The cultural orientations of both countries are somewhat similar which implies that the effective Canadian health care system can be applied in the U.S. and yield similar results. This essay attempts to compare the health care systems in the United States and Canada basing on access and coverage, cost, quality and continuity.…
Health care in Canada is known as ‘Medicare’. Public finances health care system in Canada but it is run privately. It provides universal treatment along…
health of Canadians is provided. Increasing poverty is seen to go handin-hand with increasing income inequality.…
S. is growing mainly due to the aging and the non-aging population and the need for Medicare and Medicaid Insurance. As the aging population continue to grow so will health spending and the cost for long term care and the cost of medication. Some of the U.S. Americans will not be able to afford the health care insurance or some of U.S. Americans will not have insurance. I think the U.S. should take a look at how Canada offers health care to the insured and uninsured.…
This has a huge impact on Canada’s economy. As for healthcare expenditures in 2001 Canada topped $100 billion (Canadian Health Care, 2007). At a provincial level, funds are between one-third and one-half of what provincials spend on social programs. Public sources and private sources make up the funds. Approximately 9.5% of Canada's gross domestic product is spent on health care. In comparison, the United States spends close to 14% of its GDP on health care (Canadian Health Care, 2007).…
This paper defines both The United States Health Care System and the Canadian Health Care System. It compares the significant differences between the two. It provides in full detail the single-payer system verses the multi-payer system. Medical spending and administrative costs are outlined and compared. Wealth and Health is thoroughly explained regarding…
[ 13 ]. Michael D. Tanner “A Hard Lesson about Socialized Medicine” http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6293 September 23, 1996…
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).…