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An 8 page paper that begins by reporting the 1984 Canada Health Act, including the principles incorporated into that Act. The writer comments on the disparity of services from province to province. Due to rising costs, a new structure emerged, the Regional Health Authority. The paper comments on the effectiveness and efficiency of this new organizational structure, noting there are still disparities in access. The writer also reports issues provinces should consider when restructuring or establishing a new Regional Health Authority. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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File: ME12_PGcdrha9.rtf
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(Clement, 2007). Although Canadians were receiving free health care services prior to this Act, it had been discovered that some hospitals and physicians were charging the patient fees for services,
this Act ended that practice (Clement, 2007). The practice of charging additional fees was viewed as creating a two-tired system of health care services, something that would lead to decreasing
services for some citizens (Clement, 2007). The 1984 Act, among other facets, included five principles for governing the health care system: "public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability and accessibility" (Clement, 2007,
p. 1). Provinces and territories are required to abide by these principles. If provinces fail to do so, federal funding will be reduced or withheld. The Act provided for physicians
and dentists to receive an adequate salary and it also outlined an annual budget for each hospital (Clement, 2007). Even with this Act and its mandates, private clinics began popping
up in the 1990s, thus, creating the two-tiered system the government was trying to avoid (Clement, 2007). The Canadian Minister of Health at the time sent a letter to all
provinces advising them to eliminate any and all patient fees and charges or the federal government would levy a fine against them (Clement, 2007). Even then, some provinces complied and
others did not. Alberta was one province that did not comply and they lost $3.5 million of federal funding (Clement, 2007). After that, the province complied with the law. One
issue has always been that the services from province to province differ in quantity and quality. One set of researchers found that Ontario provides the best health care and Quebec,
Saskatchewan and Newfoundland provided the worst (Walberg and Bj?rnberg, 2008). These researchers also found that the amount of money a province spent per patient was not necessarily related to quality
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