The Pros And Cons Of Canada's Universal Healthcare System

Nowadays, Canadians are concerned with many issues. Healthcare system in Canada is one of the major concerns of many Canadians. It is the government’s responsibility to find the best solution for this issue. The Canadian Health Care System provides many free clinical supports to all Canadian citizens that have the Canadian health card. There are many debates on the public health care system in Canada. The evidences are available by looking at any Canadian television news, newspaper or news-oriented radio channels. “The major argument is about two modules of health care system which are having the fully public health care system or having some private sector as well as public sector.” (Wickens, 2000, 26). Many factors support the idea of having

There are many advantages in the current health care system such as equal access to health care, better public health and lack of medical bankruptcy and debt for citizens as a result of accessing to health care. However, it has some disadvantages that have resulted in all the debates about Canadian public health care system, such as long waiting lists and downgraded quality.

Canada has been known as a country that offers universal health care coverage to all the Canadian citizens. The Universal health care is a type of health care that offers medical services free of charges to every member of the society regardless of their gender, social status, income, race, and wealth. The public health care system allows access to basic health services for all Canadian citizens and it is one of the biggest advantages of Canada among other countries. Since the life of no single human being is more important than the other, the poor can be able to get the exact same medical service as the rich in normal circumstances. Thus the access is based on need, and not ability to pay. (Armstrong, 2006) This module of health care benefits Canadians for varies reasons. First of

The most significant disadvantage of the current fully public health care system is the long waiting lines which can be solved by adding some private sector to the current fully public health care system. There is some variability in perceptions about waiting lists and waiting lines in Canadian health care system. The lack of standards governing whether and when a patient placed on the waiting list is the first major source. (Sanmartin, Shortt, Barer, Sheps, Lewis, McDonald, 2000). For example, many patients should wait for hours and tolerate the pain if their situation is not as urgent as the others in the emergency rooms of hospitals. Furthermore, many people should be in waiting lists for months to do the Computed Tomography or CT scan or MRI because there are not enough CT scan and MRI machines in hospitals compare to needs. The issue is way more than just CT scan’s wait lists. A news in CBC reports that how series of missed communications, long waits, and gaps in the system have left a woman from Alberta waiting for more than a decade for surgery to relieve the chronic pain in her back and neck. The long waiting list can severely affect individuals’ lives as it did for the 56-year-old Alberta woman that had to quit her job 10 years ago and now lying on the couch wearing a neck brace is the only thing she does, "Life is awful. It's chronic pain, so it's lonely because you really don't fit