HLST 2020 Lecture : Week Five Reading Summary.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 2020
• Professor: Carolyn Steele Gray

Document Summary

Week five reading summary; canadian healthcare: need and utilization in an almost- Universal system, handling the high spenders: implication of the distribution of health. Expenditure for financing health care, and persistence in health expenditures in the short run: Prevalence and consequences, submitted by: eleni theodoropoulos, student number: 212302287, submitted to: carolyn steele gray, hlst 2020 health policy: power and politics, Throughout these readings we learn that health financing policy involves determining how to distribute the costs of illness. A focus on choice and actuarial fairness acts to increase total costs while decreasing coverage and patient outcomes for those with health problems. Knowing whether persons in the top percentiles of the health expenditure distribution exhibit high expenditure is fundamental to developing health plan employment policies, containing costs, and understanding the consequences of costly illnesses. Canada has a good healthcare system even though it s not perfect. Reforms to strengthen one aspect are likely to weaken others.