The general health of the population today is highly looked upon and living in Canada, we have the privilege of experiencing a public health care system. The Canadian health system is one of the defining characteristics of being a Canadian. However it is not a perfect system and in fact, our public health care is heading towards major crisis. Our system consists of many issues, two of these issues being the long wait times and insufficient funds for the growing baby boomers. These two issues if not changed, it would affect many other factors that can lead to the Medicare system to fail. With Canada’s health care coverage, majority of the population is provided with their needed medical assistance. However, having access to the medical care is different from physically receiving the care. Canadians pay their taxes expecting a well-established health care system but reasons like long wait times, expectations are not met for those who require it. Long scheduled wait times are not only preventing people from getting better but it …show more content…
But, many don’t plan for the tomorrow’s such that present baby boomers are the future seniors and with the assumption of these boomers living a longer life expectancy, our current system needs to starting thinking and preparing for the upcoming visits and resources that these aging boomers will need. The health care we use today is visible to the population of its unsustainability. With this in mind, any changes to our population’s health, our Medicare would not be able to survive it. This would result in an unequal share of public health or even cutting down on public services. It may even cause the government to increase taxes and build more private facilities. However, this would make health care unaffordable and eventually drain the finances of our future
Neighboring countries, United States and Canada have close ties to one another, share the same language and have many of the same fundamental and religious beliefs. It is an interesting debt as to which provides a superior healthcare system. In order to better understand the strengths and weakness of the two systems, this paper will review four important structural and functional elements of each system.
Many people in the world may think that Canada has the ideal system of healthcare for it's citizens, but that may not be entirely correct. Although the healthcare system in Canada has excellent features such as the standard of care and acceptance of all it's residents, it is quite often misconstrued. Each province in Canada is different, but they all run with basically the same set of rules and regulations, each required by law for the basic health care services to be provided. Canada's healthcare system is based upon five main principles, those being universality, portability, comprehensiveness, accessibility, and public administration. These principles are usually enforced, however, what some people do not realize is that there are a few negative aspects of the way healthcare is
At the beginning of the 20th century healthcare was a necessity in Canada, but it was not easy to afford. When Medicare was introduced, Canadians were thrilled to know that their tax dollars were going to benefit them in the future. The introduction of Medicare made it easier for Canadians to afford healthcare. Medicare helped define Canada as an equal country, with equal rights, services and respect for every Canadian citizen. Medicare helped less wealthy Canadians afford proper healthcare. Canadian citizens who had suffered from illness because they could not afford healthcare, were able to get proper treatment. The hospitals of Canada were no longer compared by their patients’ wealth, but by their amount of service and commitment. Many doctors tried to stop the Medicare act, but the government and citizens outvoted them and the act was passed. The doctors were then forced to treat patients in order of illness and not by the amount of money they had. Medicare’s powerful impact on Canadian society was recognized globally and put into effect in other nations all around the world. Equality then became a definition which every Canadian citizen understood.
In this paper, there will be a comparative analysis to the United States (U.S.) healthcare system and Canadians healthcare system highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both.
The health care system in Canada today is a combination of sources which depends on the services and the person being treated. 97% of Canadians are covered by Medicare which covers hospital and physician services. Medicare is funded at a governmental and provincial level. People of First Nation and Inuit descent are covered by the federal government. Members of the armed forces, veterans, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are also covered by the federal government. Several services such as dental care, residential care, and pharmaceutical are not covered. The 13 provinces have different approaches to health care; therefore, it is often said that Canada has 13 healthcare systems (Johnson & Stoskopf, 2010). The access to advanced medical technology and treatment, the cost of healthcare, and the overall health of Canadians fares well in comparison with other countries such as the United States.
Jeffrey Simpson, “The Real Problem with Canadian Health Care,” National Post, accessed February 14, 2014, http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/04/jeffrey-simpson-the-real-problem-with-canadian-health-care/.
With increasing concerns of debts and deficits, Canada’s publicly funded health care system has recently become the target of fiscal attack. Efforts to reform and restructure the system have produced few results. Currently, some governments throughout the country are looking towards a more radical approach. An approach that would see not only the reform and restructuring of the method of operation of the current system, but that would change the system entirely. The proposed idea? In Alberta, it is to increase the role of the private sector in the current system.
Today, Canadians are concerned with many issues involving health care. It is the responsibility of the provincial party to come up with a fair, yet reasonable solution to this issue. This solution must support Canadians for the best; it involves people and how they are treated when in need for health care. The Liberal party feels that they have the best solution that will provide Canadians with the best results. It states that people will have the protection of medicare and will help with concerns like: injury prevention, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, etc. The Canadian Alliance Party’s plan is to make several policy-developments to benefit Canada’s health care. They believe it will serve the security and well-being best for all Canadians. The last party involved in this issue is the NDP Party; who indicate that they are fighting hard for a better Health Care system in our economy. The NDP Party states that the income of a family should not dictate the quality of health care.
The introductory of Canada’s health care system in the mid-20th century, known as Medicare, led the country into the proud tradition of a public health care system, opposite to America’s privatized health care system in the south. Though Canada’s health care system still holds some aspects of a privatized system, it is still readily available for all citizens throughout the nation. After continuous research, it is clear to state that public health care and the association it has with welfare state liberalism is by far a more favourable option for Canada, than that of private health care and the association it has with neo-conservatism. To help understand why public health care is a better and more favourable option for Canada, it is fundamental
Medicare is the term that refers to Canada's beneficially, fully funded health care system. In alternative to having a national plan, Canada’s health care insurance plans are segregated depending on the province, or territory an individual inhabits. Through Medicare, all Canadian residents have an advantage to accessing medical aid when needed. In comparison to other countries, which have limited to no access to their health services, Canada is seen as a world leader in medical aid facilities. The development of medicare in Canada had a positive impact in Canadian history because it made Canada an advanced nation, highly fulfilled the needs of society, and profitably impacts every Canadian family. Medicare has already benefited the lives of
Primary health care is the essential step to the Canadian health system. It is often associated with other specialized health care sectors, and community services. Many patients visit various services under primary health care such as family doctors' offices, mental health facilities, nurse practitioners' offices; they make phone calls to health information lines, for example, Tele-health; and receive suggestions from physicians and pharmacists (First Ministers; meeting on healthcare, n.d.). This service can prevent patients from visiting the emergency department, when all that is required is some guidance and advice. Having primary care services can reduce the consumption of acute beds, where only seriously ill patients can use the acute beds when it is available. Primary care not only deals with sickness care, but it helps patients receive preventable measures; it promotes healthy choices (Primary health care, n.d.). The focus on appropriate health care services, when and where they are needed, enhanced the ability of individuals to access primary care in various settings: at home, in a hospital or any number of family health care venues, such as Family Health Teams (FHTs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), or Nurse Practitioner- led clinics. This paper will look at the litigious heated argument in the Romanow Report concerning primary care. It will begin with a discussion of the outcome of the Accord on Health Care Renewal (2003) and The First Ministers' Meeting on the Future of Health in Canada (2004), both referring to primary care, which will then be followed with an assessment and analysis of the different ways in which the accords have been addressed in support of primary care. Followed by a discussion about the changes on ...
Chronic Condition explores faults in the Canadian healthcare system as it has developed over the last half century and examines ways of looking at healthcare comparing other country’s models in an attempt to find a solution to Canada inefficient outdated system. Simpson shows that Canadians are misled to believe that the Canadian system is relatively excellent as it consistently underperforms when cost savings, wait times, and breadth of coverage are compared to other western countries providing subsidized services. Inadequate use of medical clinics with inefficiencies in overcrowded hospitals backlog surgeries and congest the system causing a shortage of effective care. Simpson’s investigates options that can be incorporated into Canadian
Problem 1: The Real Challenge to Canada’s Health System References The real challenge to Canada's health system is not wait times. (2017, April 14). The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 6, 2018, from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/canada-must-address-the-problem-of-long-waits-for-medical-care/article34056251/ Canada's health-care wait times hit new record high, again (2017, December, 7).
4.0 Health Workforce Insufficient training in healthcare professions leads to shortage of health workforces in Canada, such as nurses and physicians. In 2014, the physician-to-population ratio is 224 physicians per 100,000 people, which showed the number of physicians was increasing and reached the highest rate. However, only 51% of physicians are family doctors, thus there is still about 15% of Canadians reported that they did not have a regular medical doctor (The College of Family Physicians of Canada, 2016). Compared to Canada, Australia and France are achieving better health outcomes with a higher physician-population ratio (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). Therefore, lack of physicians in Canada is a serious problem negatively
The movie E.T may have been one of the greatest classics ever to hit the big screen. Directed by Steven Spielberg the film tells the story of a gentle and helpless extraterrestrial that gets abandoned on Earth, the being is then discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Elliot becomes the caretaker of the extra terrestrial being who is desperately trying to get back to his planet. I believe that film had a countless amount of memorable moments through out the story. One memorable moment was when Elliot first introduces E.T to his older brother and his youngest sister.