The future of health care in Canada

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2113754
AutoresNeena L Chappell (0000-0002-3546-699X, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen22
Número4
Páginas487-505
Fecha de publicación1993-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400021012
OpenAlexW2163466230
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas17

Canada, like all industrialised countries, has become concerned over health care costs. Canada has reason to be concerned, with the most expensive system, on a per capita basis, of any country with national health insurance. This paper briefly reviews Canada's health care system, examines the rhetoric being adopted throughout the country at the current time, and discusses the changes which are now occurring. An assessment of whether change will lead to a more cost efficient and appropriate system for an aging society is then presented. It is concluded that there are profound changes taking place in the health care system in all provinces in Canada. Most of the changes to date reflect a restricting of current medical care by making ineligible previously eligible procedures, introducing user fees where there were none before, and in some instances including means testing where there was none before. In addition, hospital budgets are being cut and beds are being closed. However, a corresponding expansion of community programmes, while evident in the rhetoric, is less evident within current actions

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Per capita · Political science · Population · Public economics · Rhetoric · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes