Publicized Hospital Services in Canada Kathleen Besario 300705955 3/19/2015 Majority of the population in Canada are more concerned about general health and nothing else. Does Canada have the best health care system compared to any other countries? Or are there inconvenient truths? Health care is the top priority for Canadians and after decades of debate and arguments, significant raise in public funding and discontinuous attempt by jurisdictions are all over the country. A survey from The Conference Board of Canada, showed that 90 per cent of Canadians deem that health care should be the main concern of the government instead of other issues within the country.
A 2002 Canadian study of 26,000 U.S. hospitals, found that for-profit hospitals had a 2 percent higher mortality rate than nonprofit hospitals. No other study has shown outcomes to be clearly better in nonprofit hospitals.” Source: For-Profit Vs. Not-For-Profit Healthcare Providers | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_5974131_for_profit-vs_-not_for_profit-healthcare-providers.html#ixzz1uqmYmCls “The two types of hospitals differ mainly in regulatory rules. Non-profit hospitals do not need to pay property, sales, or income taxes. Despite these differences, the two types of ownerships have been becoming more and more similar and many hospitals have been switching ownership status suggesting that the hospital industry is less stagnant than the public perception assumes. For-profit and not-for-profit hospitals generate revenues through daily operations.
Alexander Graham Bell lived in Brantford (Ontario), and is the inventor the first working telephone. Since 1876, the telephone has greatly developed and is now much smaller, and has been created into a mobile version. Now a days, millions of people worldwide are dependent on the telephone, and would not be able to function anywhere near as efficiently as we do now, without it. The telephone and lightbulb are inventions that make life easier for us, but one of the most recognized Canadian inventions is lifesaving. Fredrick Banting and Charles Best lived in London (Ontario), and are the inventors of artificial insulin.
Since then, attempts have been made by Progressive Conservatives to pass modern abortion laws but have been unsuccessful. Canadian women now have their full right to have the procedure done by professionals. There are over 100,000 legal abortions a year and over 50 institutions that have doctors trained in performing abortions. (Tatalovich,
Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care as a right of citizenship? The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems, while 1 (Germany) has a multipayer universal health care system like President Clinton proposed for the United States. There has been a myth that United States has the best health care in the world, the fact is that the United States ranks 23rd in infant mortality, down from 12th in 1960 and 21st in 1990. The United States also ranks 20th in life expectancy for women down from 1st in 1945 and 13th in 1960, and 21st in life expectancy for men down from 1st in 1945 and 17th in 1960.
The one thing that children face with health care is that if they do become ill or even deathly ill they would need the care of a paediatrician. In Canada there are as little as 3.4 percent of paediatricians that are working in rural areas, meaning that children would need a lot of assistance with their families when it comes to traveling to the urban centers and staying overnight to be with their child (Jennissen, 1992). If a child would require alternate health care other than the regular check-ups and needles, the family itself would be put under a lot of stress with coping with the sickness of their child, taking care of other children if need be and deciding amongst the family who stays with the child overnight at the health care facility if it got to that
According to the White House, “46 million Americans are without insurance” (p.1). According to the most recent US Census the total population of the US is over 319 million (U.S. Census Bureau (2014). Looking at these numbers shows us that the vast majority of Americans have some form of insurance coverage. However, that 46 million that don’t are the
Nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were without health insurance in 2005, the latest government data available (DeNavas-Walt). In 2005, nearly one in 20 people between the ages of 18 and 64 said they were unable to get necessary prescription drugs during the past 23 months due to cost (National Center for Health Statistics, 2007). National surveys show that the primary reason people are uninsured is the high cost of health insurance coverage (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Employee Benefits: 2007). Unfortunately, even the insured are feeling a burden of health care costs.
Healthcare in Canada is publicly funded and subsidized by tax dollars. Meaning every tax-paying citizen is contributing to the healthcare of all people who utilize available services, regardless of their lifestyle, and whether they care about their bodies or have respect for others. Not everyone entering an emergency department is of sound mind, respectful or courteous to others. Convicted criminals, pedophiles, gangsters all utilize the public healthcare system. Creating a moral dilemma for nurses and healthcare professionals, who have to put their own feelings aside to treat the patient with respect and dignity.
A two-tiered system does not have a place in Canada because the public healthcare system treats everyone as equals. A private system would provide the doctors with aggrandized incomes, and lots of important doctors would switch to the private system and work in private hospitals. Canada`s healthcare is functional and beneficial in its current form, and does not need to be