Canadian Health Care: A Comprehensive Overview

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Canadian Health Care
Keywords: Health and care, drugs, alcohol, issues, provinces
Whenever all the Canadians are seen to have been polled about what has been making
them feel the proudest to be a Canadian, there is always a single answer which always remains at
the top of the list. Canadian system of health care is the answer which remains at the top of the
list maximum time. At the starting of the year 1960, the governments of Canada which are
provincial have started to introduce insurance for health provided by the government which is
sometimes called Medicare. This kind of government insurance of health has been introduced for
paying for the visits to the hospitals, operations and some other types of important medical
services. In the year 1984, the federal government of the country has passed a health act for
Canada which has helped in forcing all the plans of health which are professional for meeting
certain levels or standards of the coverage. The Canada Health Act has also been passed for
outlawing the fees which are mostly charged for the important or the most needed medical
services. Nowadays, almost all the Canadians have been provided with insurance of health which
is very much comprehensive from the birth through several plans of health for the public which
are mainly run by several governments which are provincial. Help for funding has been provided
from Ottawa. The governments which are provincial are recently running several clinics as well
as hospitals with a number of surgeons as well as doctors who are charging for their respective
services directly to the governments. Recently, there are only a few number of hospitals or few
clinics which are being run privately within the country.
The public system of health care of Canada is considered as one of the hugely generous
health cares in the whole world. However, they are also very much expensive to have a proper

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maintenance. In the current years, several state governments are noticed to have been started
scale backing their scope of the coverage of the insurance for making their particular programs
of Medicare much more sustainable as per finance is concerned. Most of the Canadians are often
purchasing private insurance of health which are mostly supplementary for paying several things
such as exams of eye, trips of dentist and some other treatment as well as operation which the
government mainly considers as not being essential. This type of plans are sometimes known as
extended coverage of medicine. This type of medical coverage which has been extended are
provided very often for all the Canadians who are working by their employers as a job’s perk.
The insurance of health which is private cannot pay for all kinds of services which are covered
by a plan of health which will be both public as well as provincial by the law.
There are often debates which are mostly heated in the contemporary politics of the
country. One of the mostly heated debates include the argument that how survival which will be
long termed can be guaranteed for the regime of the health care for the Canadians. It is very
much common for advocating privatisation at a higher level of all the medical services. This
greatly involves all the clinics which are mostly run privately and those which are based upon
fees. This helps the surgeons in providing a huge number of choices for the patients. On the other
hand, folks are considered to be hugely critical of anything which have the capability for
smacking of the edging towards a system which will be two tired, where several Canadians
possessing money can buy their paths into some betterment in the medical care than particularly
those who utilises the system which is public. To a much wider public, it is noticed that people
considers status quo to be sacred very nearly which has led most of the politicians in shying
away from all the proposing reforms which are dramatic.

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Dr. Morgentaler, who was born to a Jewish family in the country Poland, had been able
to survive death in a camp of concentration and was a complex which was frustrating foe for the
groups of pro-life. He is really one of the Canadians about whom several controversies have been
created for all time.
On the other hand, there is a huge relation of drugs and alcohol to that of the heath of the
people. Liquor has been associated with all kinds of social ills within the early country. At
several times, during the twentieth century, most of the provinces are experimented by providing
a ban upon both the sale as well as the production of alcohol in several ways. This kind of era
which is mostly called prohibition is not any kind of solution which is magical hoped by a
number of people. However, by the time of 1920s, most of the states within the country have
altered their laws for re-allowing the alcohol’s sales, but this is done by only within certain type
of regulations which are very much tight or tough. For this particular day, several provinces of
the country of Canada have a number of rules which are very much complicated and they are
capable of providing governance showing both how and where the booze can be sold ultimately.
In some of provinces within the country, drugs as well as alcohols are sold by some of the liquor
stores which are run by the government. In some other provinces, the law of the country may
need both hard beer as well as alcohol for being sold at several locations. It is observed that
almost all forbids the liquor’s sale at shops running for 24hours like those of the stores of the
corner and the supermarkets. Most of the provinces allows all the citizens in brewing but not
selling their personal wine as well as beer, but it is totally against the federal law of the country
for making liquors which will be distilled without possessing any kind of permit. The legal age
for drinking in the country Canada has been seen by all the provinces. In some states like
Manitoba, Quebec as well as Alberta, it has been observed that the age has been set to 18years.