Canadian Healthcare System

Canadian Healthcare System

The Canadian Healthcare system is public. It has an aim to offer the same service to all. The health care system of Canada is administered by the Act of Health Canada. When the state government is responsible for the provision of financial assistance for healthcare, the provincial government is responsible for the management of distribution of health care services. For instance, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan which is responsible for the provision of healthcare services to the local people residing in Ontario and people from other states and provinces who are suffering from health problems in that province. Healthcare in Canada, for necessary medical treatment, is provided free of cost to permanently residing people. However, the majority of medicines required for the treatment is not provided for free. In case treatment is not considered medically necessary, it is not paid by the public. Most Canadians care plans are paid by the employer or has other plans of healthcare that cover part or entire costs of medicines necessary for the treatment. The Canadian health care system offers all the same type of health service assistance. On the other hand, at present, hospitals and emergency rooms are crowded and long wait times for treatment have caused chaos for delivery of healthcare at public hospitals as well as for the best private health care centers. At present, a court in Quebec has made the decision that people will be given the right to select between private and public healthcare institute for the treatment. In Canada, it is not legal to obtain healthcare services from private institutes; therefore, no private medical institutions are there in Canada. For unnecessary medical services (as well as cosmetic surgery optional), there are many private institutions (CNA, 2005).

DISCUSSION

Canada is proud to have a universal health care system, quite different from that of its more powerful neighbor, the United States, which is continuous comparison. The problem is not the Canadian health care system, but the amount of money allocated to it. The problem in the U.S. is the opposite. It is not the money; it is the system (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010).

Life expectancy at birth is in line with the average of industrialized countries. The life expectancy is in good health by sex and income groups. Peculiarities of the Canadian population is to be younger than the average of the high-income countries: his Age Dependency Ratio, the ratio of the sum of individuals under the age of 14 and above 65 and the total population working age is the lowest compared to other countries comparable to Canada in terms of population, wealth, and health system characteristics. Around 95% of the Canadian population is made up of descendants of European settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and twentieth-century immigrants, mostly of Asian origin. The remaining part is of indigenous origin (O'Hara, 2005).

Future Challenges

Recent years have seen an intense debate over whether open to reform the Canadian system by increasing the role of the private ...