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This is a 5 page paper discussing the process of funding healthcare in Ontario, Canada. The process of the healthcare system in Ontario and the other provinces and territories of Canada is multi-level. The citizens of the province of Ontario, Canada enjoy universal healthcare which is considered a right according to the Canada Health Act. People pay for this health care through their income taxes and sometime also pay for additional services through supplementary payments in an employer health care plan. The federal government then transfers a percentage of funds to each province allocated for healthcare. The Ontario government then grants community and teaching hospitals in the province funding based on their annual budgetary reports. This varies according to the percentage received from the federal government. The responsibility for the administration of funds then lies with the individual health care facilities. Individual hospitals use the grant money received from the province and allocate those funds in their institution. Teaching and community hospitals within the same communities often share services in order to be more cost-effective. Hospitals also received some funding from community fund-raising efforts and income from rental properties. Physicians within the province are paid by fee-for-service; fees which are negotiated with and limited by the province each year. As the federal funding decreases each year, so too does the provincial funding for the individual institutions.
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healthcare which is considered a right according to the Canada Health Act. People pay for this health care through their income taxes and sometime also pay for additional services through
supplementary payments in an employer health care plan. The federal government then transfers a percentage of funds to each province allocated for healthcare. The Ontario government then grants community and
teaching hospitals in the province funding based on their annual budgetary reports. This varies according to the percentage received from the federal government. The responsibility for the administration of funds
then lies with the individual health care facilities. Individual hospitals use the grant money received from the province and allocate those funds in their institution. Teaching and community hospitals within
the same communities often share services in order to be more cost-effective. Hospitals also received some funding from community fund-raising efforts and income from rental properties. Physicians within the province
are paid by fee-for-service; fees which are negotiated with and limited by the province each year. As the federal funding decreases each year, so too does the provincial funding for
the individual institutions. Universal health care in Canada and its provinces and territories has been a right for Canadians regardless of economic status
since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guidelines set out in the Canada Health Act" of which
there are five principles which must be followed: "universal access, portability, public management, coverage of all medically necessary services and no additional user fees" and the "federal government pays the
share of the costs" (Brown, 2002). The federal governments commitment for the share of healthcare costs in each province and territory was originally around 50 percent which has declined
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