HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Economic Liberalism, Invisible Hand, Social Protection
28 Mar 2014
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Chapter 11 - evolution of health care policy: deconstructing divergent approaches. Most countries have common goals regarding health care that include: Social protection: enable those with fewer resources to access health care. Redistribution: redistribute health care costs among individuals, employers and society. Efficiency: ensure efficiency in the production and consumption of health services. Health care - development and reform of national health care systems highly politicized and debated within each nation. Programs of public health insurance for people on social security (65+) - medicare. Medicaid - public health coverage for those on social assistance. The rest: private insurance - through employment, veteran affairs etc. Universal system of public health insurance, in which provincial public insurance plans develop contracts with nonprofit health care insitituations such as hospitals and health practitioners to deliver health care to the canadian population. Liberalism comes from the word libre and emphasizes the following: Personal freedom - absence of coercision; individuals can pursue their own interests.
