HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Health Care In Canada, Social Insurance, Medicalization
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Health policy: financing health care: general taxation, social insurance, private insurance, out-of-pocket payment. In canada the basic goal is to provide universally coverage for medically necessary health care services provided on the basis of need rather than the ability to pay. Provincial and territorial governments: deliver most of canada"s health care services, provide medically necessary hospital and doctor"s services are free of charge, provide services to workers injured on the job. ***the canadian health care system: two key points. There are 13 provincial and territorial medical care and hospitalization insurance systems. The canadian health care system has been in constant transition. 1945: the federal gov. put forward a plan for a universal medical care and hospital services insurance program. 1947: saskatchewan introduced the first province-wide publically financed and administered hospitalization insurance program. 1972: all the provinces signed on to the medical care services act.