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A 4 page overview of Canada’s health care system, conducted for the purpose of assessing its appropriateness for consideration by the United States. The Canadian system looks much more attractive for US consideration now than in the past, as increasing numbers of US citizens are left without access to care. The health care industry in the US refuses to take on any business-like operational rules aside from that of building profits; the Canadian system may now be wholly appropriate for the US to seriously consider. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCareCanada.rtf
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as a nation was been interested in fully accessible health care long before health care costs began their rocketing upward spiral a few decades ago. Thomas C. Douglas (1904-1986)
was a politician that led Saskatchewan to the distinction of having the first government-based hospital insurance in Canada in 1947 (Canadian Medicine, 2001). Parliament passed legislation creating universal access
to all types of care in 1984 (Canada Health Act, 2004), completing the vision that Thomas Douglas began working for decades earlier. Five Principles
The purpose of the Canada Health Act was to "ensure that all residents of Canada have access to necessary hospital and physician services on a prepaid basis" (Canada Health
Act, 2004). Five guiding principles provide a framework within which the system must be contained. Those five principles are: * Public Administration; * Comprehensiveness - "all medically necessary
services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured" (Canada Health Act, 2004); * Universality - ensures uniform terms and conditions for all citizens; * Portability - the insured person
retains coverage when moving to another part of Canada or traveling outside the country; * Accessibility - Canadas insured citizens must be provided with "reasonable access" to care, "unimpeded by
financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipalities receive funds transfers from the federal government
according to a count of those covered in the local area with national insurance, similar to the capitation method of payment to providers that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) currently use
in the United States. Physicians and other health care workers are paid on a salary basis, and providers are not allowed to charge extra fees beyond those approved by
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