HLTHAGE 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupational Safety And Health, Health Care In Canada, Fiscal Gap
11 Jan 2018
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Canadian health system: acts and legislation: development of medicare, saskatchewan universal plan for hospital services 1947, federal program for hospital services in 1957 hospital insurance and. Diagnostic services (hids) act; share the cost on 50-50 basis: saskatchewan insured physician services 1962, federal program for physician services in 1966 medical care act (mca); share costs on a 50-50 basis. Canadian health system: acts and legislation: development of. Legislation: the canada health act, block funding resulted in an increase in extra billing by physicians (especially. Introduced in 1984 specialists: new act combined hids & mca but added the accessibility criterion which essentially banned extra billing, accessibility requires reasonable access unimpeded by financial or other barriers to medically necessary hospital or physician services. Economic principles: historically, medicare demand was expected to peak and then decline!, governments quickly discovered that demand would always grow for healthcare, evidence?? (see next slide) In some cases substitutions can increase or decrease efficiency.
