HLTHAGE 2F03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Health System, Health Care In Canada, Aubrey De Grey

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It is a very good thing that spending is concentrated. The costs don"t go away they are just shifted to the sick: pre-funding, the model from this is based on cpp; the canada pension plan where canadians pay into the fund while they are working throughout their life. Fair across generations: the money from cpp cannot be used for anything besides healthcare, can be inefficient: if interest rates are low it won"t really benefit. Oecd: an international effort to standardize statistics: organization for economic cooperation and development, they work to produce comparable information on economic matters (trade, production, For the 35 richest countries in the world investment, social policies, migrations, and health: however they do not have information on spending by age, therefore we need to use the next database more specific to canada. This is one measure of the total resources we have.