Health Care Weaknesses

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CANADIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CANADIAN HEALTH SYSTEM
Canadian health care is commonly known as Medicare. The system is designed to be universal, portable, publicly administered, accessible and comprehensive. The governance, organization and delivery of health care services are very much decentralized in Canada. Most of the provinces and territories administer Medicare and plan health care services to their people. The last few years has experienced few pan-Canadian health reform initiatives however specific provinces have engaged much of their resources in reorganizing and refining their regional health care systems. Most of the territories have improved on quality and have focused on timely delivery of

Therefore, despite some unifying standards every province often has unique hospital delay times and access to other health care services to private clinic. (Irvine, et al., 2011).

The Canadian act:
The Canada Health Act puts together the elements of two pieces of legislation viz: the hospital insurance and diagnostic services act of 1957 and the medicare act of 1968. However, extra provisions were added to eliminate charges directly impacted on patients in the extra-billing forms and user fees. The act was also designed to discipline provincial and territorial governments that allowed direct charges to patients on unreasonable basis (Council of Canadian, 2010).
The principles of the Canadian act include:
Public administration: Public health insurance plan set by the government is should be managed in a public way and should not be