...Health Management: Overcoming Canadian Health Care Issues Canada is a country well known for many things, among the list of things it is known for would its universal health care system. Canada’s universal health care is known around the world. Unlike neighboring countries health care in Canada is share amongst all citizens, from rich to poor and young to old. If you ask many Canadians about their health care system they do address the fact that they are fortunate and happy to have universal health care but do have some issues with it. To fully understand Canada’s health care you must start to understand it from its core. The mismanagement of health care has resulted to long wait times and made it the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care (Rachlis, 2005). Wait times in Canada has become a major issue in the health care system and a major set back in providing good quality health services to Canadians. Along with addressing the issues of wait times I will also include the problems of packed emergency rooms, what exactly these wait times are and how it can improve. When ill or in pain, there is nothing more frightening or frustrating than having to wait for treatment. Many Canadian face long wait times for health services such as waiting to see a specialist, having a transplant or simply getting a check up at their local doctor office. Wait times in the Canadian health care system has become a problem for Canadians, despite polices which states equal access to...
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...– Essay Major themes in health care in Canada include access to services. Identify the issues, identify the changes you believe are needed and discuss the approach you would propose to implement these changes. Simply put, access in the health care sector refers to the ability for a patient to receive the care and services required to maintain a healthy quality of life. Access to health care services continues to be a key issue for Canadians and health policy makers.1,2 Key issues exist in several dimensions of the health care process, including access to a specialist, non-emergency surgery and non-emergency diagnostic testing. More specifically, it is the significant amount of time one will spend waiting for their opportunity to receive these services that remains a concern. Among those who had waited for specialist visits, 29% reported unacceptable waits. This was also true for 17% of patients who were waiting for a non-emergency surgery and 20% for those waiting for diagnostic testing.3 Median waiting times for all specialized services remained relatively stable between 2003 and 2005 at 3 to 4 weeks, depending on the kind of care. Approximately 18% of individuals who visited a specialist indicated that waiting for the visit affected their life, compared with 11% and 12% for non-emergency surgery and diagnostic tests respectively.4 Despite several efforts made by government agencies, access still remains one of the foremost issues identified. Billions of dollars...
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...Question 1 The Canada Health Act was an act from 1985 that was written to propose set principles of providing health care insurance and services in Canada (Duckett, 2012, p. 10). There are five principles that make up the Canada Health Act and they are as follows: Public Administration, Comprehensiveness, Universality, Portability and Accessibility (Duckett, 2012, p. 11). The first principle of the Canada Health Act is Public Administration and the main elements of this principle are that it establishes rules for how a health care insurance plan can be formed, their responsibilities and how they will be reviewed (Duckett, 2012, p. 12). Public administration constrains the provincial governments as they have to appoint and audit insurance plans to make sure they are non-profit and providing the appropriate services (Duckett, 2012, p 12). The key issue with this principle is that only the insurer is written to be public, meaning that health care professionals can run their businesses privately forcing Canadians to pay extensive out of pocket expenses (Duckett, 2012, p. 12). The second principle of the Canada Health Act is Comprehensiveness and the main element of it is that health care insurance plans “must insure all insured health services provided by hospitals, medical practitioners or dentists” (Duckett, 2012, p. 12). Unfortunately a key issue with this principle is that it states “necessary services” is covered but this is a broad term so other aspects of health care such as prescription...
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...Privatization of Healthcare In Canada the population has free health care. The issue that has begun popping up is the problem that the companies and the government wants to start privatizing health care, meaning the companies want the control over all things concerning the health care system. Over time owners of healthcare services wanted to start making money, money has always been a huge factor in extremely important decisions. The most important influencing factor in this issue is of course money, it is understandable that money is an influencing factor but making money off of the people’s ailments is very scary, even though almost all other countries already don't have free healthcare, hundreds of thousands of the immigrants are here...
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...controversial issue. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into effect the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. This law the President signed puts into place comprehensive healthcare reforms that will affect the next 4 years and beyond. Some of the large reforms that will happen are benefits for women, strengthening Medicare, holding more insurance companies accountable, and young adult coverage. Women will be benefited from the Affordable Care Act by having preventive services covered and having more insurance options. Young adults will benefit from the Affordable Care act because coverage will be available for children up to 26 years of age. By far, the largest thing that goes into effect started this year, which states that every American will have access to affordable healthcare insurance options. The Act ensures that low income and middle-income families get tax credits that cover most of their insurance coverage cost. Also, more low- income people will receive Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. By establishing these reforms, specifically the later one, millions of people who were not insured previously will be receiving healthcare. The health Insurance Marketplace was created for people to be able to compare their different health plans, see if they receive tax credits pertaining to the Affordable Care Act and private institutions. Healthcare in the United States is spread out over distinct organizations. Most of the health care facilities are...
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...Running head: HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH CARE Health Status and Health Care Services in Canada with Comparison to the United States Bonny Tiley DeVry University, HSM 310 In the following literature, the Canadian health care system will be compared in detail to the United States health care system. There are two very different health care systems between Canada and the United states. They each have their own difficulties within their own systems and are currently trying to find ways to improve these particular issues. The Universal Health Care system is used in Canada; this provides coverage to all the citizens of Canada (Canadian Health Care, 2007). It is executed on either a territorial or provincial basis, staying within the guidelines that have been made by the federal government (Canadian Health Care, 2007). The United States on the other hand has a hugely private system, with multiple payers, leaving the US citizens no choice other than to pay out of one’s own pocket in order to obtain health insurance, also Americans are not fully insured or even partially insured like the citizens of Canada are (Canadian Health Care, 2007). Each country spends a large amount of funding for their health care systems. Canada had spent over eleven percent of its overall GDP on health care, the United States on the other hand had spent 17.4 percent of its overall GDP this year (United North America, 2013). On the other hand, Canada has been shown to spend much less of the GDP on their...
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...The Canadian Health Care system has been regarded as one of the best publicly funded health care programs in the world, to conduct a fair and unbiased comparison of the Canadian and American health care systems one should use similar measuring techniques. Comparing our Health Care system to the United States’ is only going to give us a false sense of satisfaction. This will hinder our progress towards reaching a system that would facilitate the needs of every citizen while taking their opinions and complaints into consideration. A Canadian Health Care system created by the people and for the people. The major differences between the Canadian and the American health care systems are that the Canadian health is a publicly-funded single-pay system which covers costs deemed medically necessary for every citizen/resident regardless of their ability to pay. While the American health care is a multi-payer system based on the patient’s finances. I argue That Canadian Health Care system is better than the American Health Care system. In the Canadian system the citizens will pay far less than they would ever pay if they were being treated for any sickness or receiving any medical services in the United States. It is clear that the Canadian health system is better than the American counterpart as the reported Life expectancy is higher in Canada by more than 2 years, 82.4 years for women and 77.4 years for men when compared to the American life expectancy, 80.1 years for women and 74.8 years...
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...Public health care still is the best in Canada Eric (Fan Mo) Today, Canadians are concerned with many issues involving health care. There are some problems in public health care system, like waiting time, capital and so on. So, some people think private health care is a better choose. However, I disagree with that. I want to demonstrate that public health care has more stability and more protection than private health care. The basic of fairness and equity that are demonstrated by the willingness of Canadians to share resources and responsibility are displayed in Canada’s health care system, and have been reflected in the modifications and major reforms made to system since its inception .The system has been and continues to be modified as the country’s population and circumstance change, and as the nature of health care itself. In Canada, public health care system got the most Canadian support. Canadians strongly support the health system’s public rather than for-profit private basis, and a 2009 poll by Nanos Research found 86.2% of Canadians surveyed supported or strongly supported “ public solutions to make our public health care stronger.” (“ Public health care scores big in poll as MDs study privatization”. Healthzone.ca. 2009-08-12) A Strategic Counsel survey found 91% of Canadians prefer their health care system instead of a U.S....
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...Two Systems One Vision “Health care U.S vs. Canada” There are two different ways in which to approach the concept of universal health care one system can be described by aspects of Canada and another system can be described from modeling the current U.S system. The current President and his administration will deal with the daunting task of creating a universal health care plan and making health care affordable for the average American. In their quest to create a universal health care plan they may look towards our friends north of the border. Canada has implemented a Universal health care plan that has been running for several years, abet its health care system is not perfect; it is important for the United states listen to its neighbors and research the possible downfalls. This research paper will discuss the possibility of using the Canadian Health care system as model to improve universal health care in the United States. Many ask how Canada Manage to offer such a comprehensive health care system does. The answer to this question isimply put is money. Health care in Canada is funded by publically funded health care system. The Canada Health care act created five provisions that each provinces and territories would have to meet in order to retain federal monies. These provisions included: • Public Administration: All administration of provincial health insurance must be carried out by a public authority on a non-profit basis. They also must be accountable to the...
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...All citizens of Canada are granted the right to health care and cannot be denied due to the inability to pay. Since health insurance in Canada is handled by each of the individual territories and provinces, a new citizen to Canada must apply and be accepted for a provincial health card from their residing province or territory (OECD, 2008). This card must be used whenever visiting a health care provider in order to render coverage in that particular province or territory. Select provinces like British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario do require health care premiums for services but if a citizen is unable to pay these premiums, the clinic cannot deny services, under the Canada Health Act (Canada Health Act, 2007). The availability of health care very high in Canada, in fact 91% of Canadians report that they have a regular source of health care...
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...The nation of Canada has a dynamic health care system which functions as a publicly-funded, single-payer system. Health care in the country is commonly referred to as Medicare, with spending decisions regarding it being made at the provincial level. The health care system offers many benefits to Canadian citizens, such as how every citizen is covered, regardless of class or financial status. Studies show that a plurality of citizens are satisfied with this health care system, however, there are several apparent issues within the system that are in need of some alteration. Some of these issues include significant wait times and an unequal distribution of quality health care, especially for those living in rural areas. With this knowledge, one...
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...Barriers on Immigrants to Canada BACKGROUND: Immigration Statistics Providing a statistical background on both immigration and language fluency is essential to understanding how large the scale of individuals facing these barriers is. There are approximately 250,000 immigrants to Canada each year. The majority of these immigrants to Canada come from Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa (Pottie, 2008). Immigration represents nearly 70% of the Canadian population growth. Even after four years of arriving in Canada, 26% of all new immigrants still faced language difficulties (not sure about ur whole ‘tense’ situation :P) in English or French (Pottie, 2007). According to Statistics Canada, the 2001 Census stated that 40% of immigrants aged 25-54 who came to Canada in the 1990s had a university degree (Statistics Canada, 2003). Nearly 70% of immigrants experience barriers in the Canadian labour market, despite the fact that 76% of these immigrants have at least one foreign international credential (Schugurensky, 2005). LANGUAGE BARRIERS: Health Care Services This barrier has a domino affect; it affects all aspects of life for immigrants. It causes emotional strain, places barriers to accessing services (including the health care services) consequently affecting the health of immigrants. The restriction of access to health care is one of, if not the most important barrier language has for immigrants. Canada provides a universal health care insurance system, a publically...
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...Ethnicity Health Assessment Introduction Healthcare access across the world is vastly different between countries. The citizens of those countries also have varying opinions of those healthcare systems. Some of these countries utilize private healthcare systems. That is where the citizen is responsible for their healthcare. Some countries use government run systems. In some countries, it is up to the citizen to decide which route they want to choose. It is important for people to know what is available to them and to understand what each of the systems mean. After interviewing an individual who lived in of Canada for many years, it is easy to see the differences between their healthcare model and the United States’ model. How would you rate the healthcare quality on a scale from 1-10? The individual interviewed stated that he would give the Canadian healthcare system an eight out of ten. This person stated that healthcare access had been very easily obtained for him. He also stated that he had no difficulty in scheduling appointments with primary care providers. Also, he had to have a knee surgery and getting that taken care of was not a stress at all. One of the other reasons he rated it so high is that it is free. That is something that is greatly different between Canada and the United States. Also, in comparison to hospitals in the United States, the hospitals in Canada are not as nice. With that in mind, he said it was worth it because it was free...
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...Immunization is a very controversial topic including the issue of mandatory flu vaccination for front-line health care workers. Health care workers are the front-line workers to whom patients are first exposed to during the initial encounter to medical system. Influenza is commonly referred to as the seasonal flu which strikes 5% to 15% of the world’s population with approximately 3 to 5 million severe cases of illness which leads to 250000 to 500000 deaths annually (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014). In addition, hospital acquired influenza has a 16% mortality rate which increases to 60% in high-risk population groups (Cortes-Penfield, 2014). Specifically in Canada, the average rate of influenza infection is 10% to 20% of the population...
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...|The Case For Single Payer, Universal Health Care For The United States | | | | | | | | | |Nicole Jones | |April 2011 | |HS 544 Health Policy and Economics | |Fowler | | | Table Of Contents Page Section 1: Executive Summary …………………………………………….. 3 Section 2: Introduction …………………………………………….. 4 Section 3: Literature Review ……………………………………………… 5 Section 4: Problem Analysis ……………………………………………… 10 Section 5: Solutions and Implementations ………………………………………… 17 Section 6: Justification ……………………………………………… 18 Section 7: References ……………………………………………… 20 Executive Summary Almost four decades ago, Canada and the United States had very similar health care systems. Today, they are very different. The...
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