HLTHAGE 2F03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Angela Merkel, Models 1, Social Fund

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2F03
• Professor: Michel Grignon

Document Summary

There is no systematic leader in health care across nations. With 11% gdp devoted to health care - ca is one of the bigger spenders along with some. European countries, but pales in comparison to the us. Ca experienced severe public funding slashes in the 1990s. Doctors cannot extra-bill or take private pay patients unlike other countries. Also unlike others, hospitals have fee-for-service docs coexisting with rigid global budgets instead of the mix of payment features of elsewhere. Ca late in the game of public coverage compared to europe. Used to be employer based like in the us. Major difference between ca and europe - the extensive role of subnational govts from the origins of the public model in sk to the enduring responsibilities of provincial govts in the health care sector. In other countries like france and uk the central gov"t finances and delivers care.