Canadian health care system overview and structure

Canadian Healthcare System

Pros and Cons of the Canadian Healthcare System

The Canadian Healthcare System is considered as among the best in the world. This is because it is controlled and paid by the government, thus equal access to health care is given to every citizen of Canada. Moreover, because Canada devotes budgets to health care, the spiraling of health care costs is monitored and controlled. However, despite of these benefits, there are also some difficulties in Canada's health care system that require attention.

A ping the issues in Canada's health care system is the quality of care. For instance, there are complains regarding delays in the public healthcare system of Canada. As indicated by a high court, from Walter Williams' article Why Canadians Purchase Private Health Insurance,

The evidence in this case shows that delays in the public healthcare system are widespread, and that, in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public healthcare. The evidence also demonstrates that the prohibition against private health insurance and its consequence of denying people vital healthcare result in physical and psychological suffering that meets a threshold test of seriousness."

To Thomas Sowell, another opponent of the universal health care, suggests that it is necessary to first study the consequences of having a universal health care before diverting into such system. Sowell doesn't believe in a government-run health care. To him, the universal health care doesn't reduce the real cost of health care but instead reduces the amount of money a patient has to pay for at the cost of reducing health care quality.