Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vhi Healthcare, Canada Health Transfer
10 Apr 2018
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Financial resources source of health care nance is taxation by the provincial, territorial and federal governments. The remainder comes from individual patients in the form of out-of-pocket payments and private health insurance. This money is allocated to health organizations and providers primarily by governments. In alberta and british columbia, these premiums are in reality poll taxes. The same tax is imposed on individuals and families irrespective of utilization or income. The surtax is 0 for individuals with a yearly taxable income of less than c 000, and then moves up in steps from c for incomes of c 000 36 000) to c for incomes of. The rst was the conversion of roughly half of the original cash transfer into a permanent tax point transfer. The federal government annually counts the value of this tax point transfer, while the provinces count only cash transfers. The second was the mixing of health transfers with federal transfers to provinces for postsecondary education.
