Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canada Health Transfer, Canada Health Act, Pharmaceutical Industry
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1966: medical care act - cost-sharing medical services for doctors cost sharing between federal and provincial federal government was gonna do 50/50 for medical services provided by doctors and hospitals. 1977: the federal- provincial fiscal arrangements and established programs financing. Increase in expenditure since 2005 speci cally on paying doctors: wasn"t more treatments being o ered the doctors were just being paid more for their services pay sta more and have more sta to pay. Health expenditure today: public sector responsible for almost 70% of total health expenditures other 30 is spent on private on things that aren"t covered by medicare. 6300 dollars per tax payer and 11% of canadas gpa this has decreased since 2010 since 2010 theres a decrease in spending in health care. Sources of payment for health care these haven changed since the 90s public health insurance has been growing more rapidly then out of pocket services.