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Canada's Healthcare System: A Case Study

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When discussing healthcare, one should take into consideration the many differences in health care delivery and policy around the world. Healthcare is specific to each country and there are several factors that are involved in policy creation. Healthcare systems are driven by politics, economical, and social factors. The health care system in Canada raises many debates and political controversy. The system is a group of socialized health insurance plans, in which all Canadian citizens are provided. The federal government has set the guidelines and all territories and provinces follow said guidelines. The health care system provides preventative care, physician care, hospital treatment, and other medical treatments (Guyon & Perreault, 2016). …show more content…

Canada’s plan coverage is universal, comprehensive, and is simple and easy to use. Canada’s healthcare system is known as a single-payer system. The provincial government pays for medically necessary care, to all citizens, through taxes and some funds from the federal government. This is not the case for the United States. There are approximately 37 million people who have no health insurance or coverage under the U.S. healthcare system, known as the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) (Dickman, et al., 2017). The administrative costs are high, whereas, in Canada they are not. In Canada, all citizens have access to care and no one can be denied services based on income and coverage does not change if one decides to move. Benefits are the same for every Canadian …show more content…

The World Health Organization states that “universal health coverage means all people and communities can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship.” Canada currently provides universal healthcare to it’s citizen, while the United States has somewhat tried to implement something very similar, with a few key elements missing, such as financial hardship. Those in the U.S. that cannot afford to purchase insurance, but do not qualify for subsidies or assistance, suffer from financial hardships when paying out of pocket for medical care, or paying tax penalties for not purchasing

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Better Now : 6 Big Ideas by Dr. Danielle Martin is a compilation of ideas to try and fix the Canadian Healthcare system. Martin gained popularity after a schooling Republicans at the United States committee led by the Independent Senator Bernie Sanders. The Canadian doctor was invited at the panel to represent Canada, alongside other countries like France, Denmark Taiwan, to discuss the nation’s healthcare system and what the United States could learn from it. Inevitably, one of the issues often brought up by Canadians is the long waiting periods that Capitalists like to blame on the single payer system. Martin argued that when Australia switched to a multi-payer system in the 1990’s, statistics showed that wait times in the public health

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Pat Armstrong’s thesis in Managing Care the Canadian Way, is that expanding Canada’s public health care system the way that Canada has been doing so for the last 30 years, rather than privatizing it the way the United States’ health care system runs, is the best way to improve it. Armstrong argues that Canadian health care as a non-profit system is superior to the largely profited and privately administrated services in the United States. Canada has begun to bring American style health care into the system and Armstrong believes that this will have a negative impact on the Canadian health system in cost, accessibility and quality of health care. The strategies used in Canadian Medicare to manage costs are much more effective than managed care in the United States.

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The public has always been in favour of creating an insured medical system, but the first notable efforts made by Canadian citizens were in British Columbia when the soldiers returned from World War I. Many soldiers who were wounded and treated abroad wondered why Canada did not have a system like the ones in the countries that they had battled in, as the care that they received abroad was much better than any care that they had ever received in Canada.1 That is when the pressure was on the government for a reform, but the government did not see this as a priority and continued to push it off. In the meantime, groups of workers, like the Glace Bay miners in Nova Scotia and farmers in Alberta would help each other to insure themselves. There

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It is a system which all Canadians are proud of. “Medicare’s basic principles embody how Canadians wish to both see themselves and distinguish their nation from a powerful, and at times overwhelming, continental neighbor ”(Shevell,2012,p.35). They did it. Nowadays, in the United States, there are only 48 million American who are able to enjoy medical treatment(Celeste& Roxanne, 2013). Furthermore, Medicare also brought benefits not only to local people but also immigrants.

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The health care system provides benefits for Canadians such as covering costs for doctor’s visits, treatments and basically all care besides medical drugs. Likewise, this program was also very successful and effective therefore it still is apart of one of the many benefits given to

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As we know, after the 1940s, the two countries developed different health care systems. In the article, Maioni argues that completely different health care systems caused by diverse political systems in these two countries. The major point that the author makes to support her arguments was impact of the third party. The third party could only form in Canada, but not in the United States. This can be explained by the following two reasons.

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The purpose of Maioni article is to analyze how Canada and United states ended up having two different form of health care insurance. Both countries until the 1940’s shared the same histories with their political ideology and economic development. This article examines how two counties with similar ideology came to have two different welfare states and most important government funded health insurance. Maioni points out two important reason why there was a diversion between both countries in terms of their health care. The first one is parliamentary government and the second was federalism.

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Canada enjoys the benefits of a “universal” insurance plan funded by the federal government. The idea of having a publicly administered, accessible hospital and medical services with comprehensive coverage, universality and portability has its own complex history, more so, than the many challenges in trying to accommodate the responsibility of a shared-cost agreement between federal and provincial governments. (Tiedemann, 2008) Canada’s health care system has gone through many reforms, always with the intent to deliver the most adequate health care to Canadians. The British North American Act, Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act, Saskatchewan’s Medical Care Act, and the Canada Health Act are four Acts that have played an important

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