Discuss The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Canada's Health Care System

When we think about health care, different countries have different interpretation and their own way of running the public healthcare system. Even though the system differ they both have advantages and disadvantages that oppose one another. After watching the documentary “Sicko” it can be clearly seem that Canada and the United states are oppositely sided when it comes to the health of their people.
To start off, in Canada there are many advantages, to name one, it would be that Canada’s system never leaves anyone behind. In Canada no one denies access to healthcare based on whether or not they can afford to pay. Funds are already paid for by the people’s taxes and The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, this is another advantage. When someone in Canada checks into a hospital they are freely to recover without worrying about the cost. With this advantages, people with low family income are also relieve of financial stress, making them happier, healthier and not conflicted with numbers.
Thought the Canadian health system has many benefits there are disadvantages that correspond. One of the major disadvantages is access to care can sometime be a significant problem.

Since healthcare is very costly, it can cut into the government budgets and restrictions on government funding can limit the access via waiting lists. These wait times may put the patients at risk while they wait for a surgery or their condition may be worst as they wait. Those that need priority care make the wait times for others very frustrating. Seniors, those with life threatening conditions, and other urgent cases will be looked after first while others can sometimes wait a long time.
Opposing to the Canadian system, there’s the United States health care.

Even though the system has more disadvantages, there are still some advantages to take into consideration one of which is that it has one of the best medical research system. The U.S. has one of the best medical research systems in the world. Researchers from institutions such as Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic are world-renowned for the advances they are making in medicine. As well there is the Affordable Care Act which uninsured people will get access to affordable, high-quality health insurances. This insurance policy ensure that people well not be dropped from coverage when they are sick and also can’t be denied coverage, treatments or get charged

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Though there are advantages that exist now, they were not put into action a few years ago. The people were at a disadvantage of either pay or die. Nothing is paid for even though people have their insurance plans and if it was paid for it would be a small amount, that left people in lots of death. As seen in the documentary, “Sicko” people such as the elder couple had to move in with their children due to debts that resulted them into bankruptcy. Another disadvantage would be health care programs denying people access to medical procedures that is indeed significant to their lives. There were many examples in the documentary that shows this for example, Tracy, even though his younger brother was willing to be a donor, at the last minute the hospital refuse to do the procedure, resulting in his death. As well, another person who was denied of their access to health was the Japanese women who had a brain tumour, even though there were clear evidence, the insurance company and health service kept on denying it and state that she was fine and that there was no tumour. Lastly, not all Americans are covered with insurance, even though insurance was not doing its part. It was still difficult to qualify for a plan because the applicant had to be free of a long list of conditions to be approve.