Canadian Healthcare System: The Canadian Health Care System

1. The Canadian health care system is widely known and described by the term “free”, which makes those individuals that classify the Canadian health care system as free, oblivious of what is actually taking place. What this article reveals and Canadians need to understand is that in Canada we have a 70:30 percent ratio of publicly and privately ran health services and those privately ran health services are to be increasing. That 70% is being financed by the government through taxation dollars while the other 30% is directly coming out of individual’s pockets or any benefits or insurance they are covered over. In the mythbuster article it states dental hygiene care is paid by individuals directly out of their pocket or by private insurance

This is an important issue that Canadians may be ignorant towards that will be affecting them in the long term. With Canada’s aging population this a crucial concern because these private services are not financially achievable by some of the aging population. Home care is becoming another major issue because the elderly want to be treated in the comfort of their home. In the article it does reveal that “home care is important because it ensures that low acuity patients receive appropriate level of care and leaving the expensive hospital beds for those individuals that require a higher level of care”. This statement may be reasonable, however those individuals that do prefer home care, need to recognize that depending on province or territory they are living in; only cover some services. With this accessibility of those services sometimes may not be at ones convenient. Many believe that regardless of where an individual lives health care coverage should be

I agree with some of the statements presented in the Mythbusters article, as in the perspective of a Canadian tax payer. I don’t feel as if I should be paying for services that I may not be using. Using the term “services” may be broad but it’s fair to say that many individuals are trying to save money. For example I don’t need access to a psychiatrist, because I don’t have a mental condition that requires me to get treatment. In that case I shouldn’t have to pay for that, and those services should be privatized since services like those are only needed by some but not by all. In the article they identify that “CHA services such as hospital-employed psychiatrist are services that are not technically medically necessary, since the term only applies to physician-provided care”. If I don’t need any particular service, the money should be either coming out of the individuals pockets or any insurance or employment benefits they can receive but not by public funds through individuals taxation dollars. A suggestion that I believe that can benefit in the future is that any additional public fund money there is, should go towards expanding hospitals room or creating more rooms for patients. However I do disagree with one of the major health care services that are being privatized that I strongly believe should be a part of public coverage. Dental is a healthcare service in which in Canada is privatized which majority of the individuals have used or still is using or may be using