America's Health Care vs. Canada's Health Care
American vs. Canada, Who Has the Better Health Care System?
Canada In the 1960’s, Canada reformed its system providing a universal single payer health care system which covers all services provided by physicians and hospitals it is mostly free at point of use and has most services provided by private entities. Single payer health care is the financing of costs of delivering universal health care for an entire population through a single insurance pool. The government took over full funding of both physician and hospital services, setting minor physician fees and hospital budgets. Everyone is covered at all times.
United States of America For the past 8 decades, the U.S. has run its country on a private health care system where the individual pays for their choice of health care. Depending on the coverage of the health care amounts to the cost. In the U.S, government funding for health care is limited to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers senior citizens, the very poor, disabled people, veterans and their families and children. The United States is the only country in the developing world that does not have a fundamentally public tax-supported health care system.
Debate
Canadians as well as Americans both have pros and cons with their health care systems. Canada is not as populated as America with 1/10 of America’s population; it becomes difficult to see a specialist. At times, Canadians have to travel thousands of miles in order to meet up with some specialists. Due to the single payer healthcare, doctors don’t get paid “enough” and then have what they like to call a “brain drain” where Canadians become doctors and move to the United States to make a better living. One of the major problems in Canada is the waiting period to be helped, because of the lack of doctors patients may have to wait several months for surgeries such as hip replacement. A patient once had to wait 13 weeks
Canada In the 1960’s, Canada reformed its system providing a universal single payer health care system which covers all services provided by physicians and hospitals it is mostly free at point of use and has most services provided by private entities. Single payer health care is the financing of costs of delivering universal health care for an entire population through a single insurance pool. The government took over full funding of both physician and hospital services, setting minor physician fees and hospital budgets. Everyone is covered at all times.
United States of America For the past 8 decades, the U.S. has run its country on a private health care system where the individual pays for their choice of health care. Depending on the coverage of the health care amounts to the cost. In the U.S, government funding for health care is limited to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers senior citizens, the very poor, disabled people, veterans and their families and children. The United States is the only country in the developing world that does not have a fundamentally public tax-supported health care system.
Debate
Canadians as well as Americans both have pros and cons with their health care systems. Canada is not as populated as America with 1/10 of America’s population; it becomes difficult to see a specialist. At times, Canadians have to travel thousands of miles in order to meet up with some specialists. Due to the single payer healthcare, doctors don’t get paid “enough” and then have what they like to call a “brain drain” where Canadians become doctors and move to the United States to make a better living. One of the major problems in Canada is the waiting period to be helped, because of the lack of doctors patients may have to wait several months for surgeries such as hip replacement. A patient once had to wait 13 weeks