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This is a 5 page paper discussing the current issues involved with the privatization of health care in Canada. Canadians have been slowly absorbing more of personal medical costs within the last decade indicating a slow trend toward a private health care system in Canada. As federal funding decreases toward medicare, the provinces have had to pay for more and more of their medical costs especially in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta which currently have the highest costs per capita in medical care. Provincial governments, especially in Alberta, are slowly leaning toward the idea of privatization in order to decrease the burden placed on their government. Citizens and health organizations however, supported by the Canada Health Act are not interested in abandoning the current public system for fear of increased personal costs, decreased public health care and the possibility of a two-tier system resulting. Instead, they would like to see improvements to the current Canadian public health care systems in areas which currently cost Canadian citizens the most in personal health costs such as medications, home care, long-term care, dental care, physiotherapy in addition to more regimented reporting systems from health care centres and the Canadian government.
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Canada. As federal funding decreases toward medicare, the provinces have had to pay for more and more of their medical costs especially in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta which
currently have the highest costs per capita in medical care. Provincial governments, especially in Alberta, are slowly leaning toward the idea of privatization in order to decrease the burden placed
on their government. Citizens and health organizations however, supported by the Canada Health Act are not interested in abandoning the current public system for fear of increased personal costs, decreased
public health care and the possibility of a two-tier system resulting. Instead, they would like to see improvements to the current Canadian public health care systems in areas which currently
cost Canadian citizens the most in personal health costs such as medications, home care, long-term care, dental care, physiotherapy in addition to more regimented reporting systems from health care centres
and the Canadian government. Public health care which has long been favoured in Canada has been scrutinized in the last few years especially
in the province of Alberta where the issue of privatization of health care systems has been debated since the late 1990s. This is not uncommon across Canada however as privatization
has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Canadians more each year (Kennedy, 2002). In 1999, a
report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirmed the trend toward private health care. As the Canadian government slowly has cut down its expenditures toward medicare, private insurance
companies have been left with the increasing costs of prescription services and homecare. In the report, it was shown that in 1999 the government spending toward medicare rose by 5.1%
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