Comparison of Healthcare System in Canada and USA

Running head: FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
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FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
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Answer 1
In Canada, healthcare system is currently being assessed and the quality care process are
being provided to the countrymen through federal system. Universal healthcare system in
Canada is effective and covers almost every section of the society so that the fundamental right if
each human can be preserved (Baldwin, 2011). However, there are several lacks in the coverage
system and few sections of healthcare system are not even covered under the public health
scheme. Such as for example, drug and home healthcare service are still not covered under the
public healthcare system. Further, there are sections in the healthcare system that allows outside
the country coverage only after receiving the approval from the local and central province.
Further, due to excessive demand of quality healthcare in Canada the painting time to receive
quality healthcare is one of the limiting factor for the healthcare in Canada and this situation is
also not covered under the universal healthcare coverage scheme (Brown, 2003).
While comparing these shortcomings of Canadian healthcare system with that of the
united States of America, it should be mentioned that the process of arranging travel insurance or
healthcare insurance for non-residential Americans is much more easier than Canada as do not
seek permission from the health ministry to approve the healthcare needs of travelers or
nonresidential (Faria, 2012). Further, as the healthcare related competition has decreased the
costs in USA, admission of patients in hospitals for quality healthcare has become easier in lower
prices. However, on the aspect of moral and cultural foundation of universal coverage, the
United States of America lacks behind Canada and there are a huge number of people who are
still not covered under any healthcare insurance and the amount is more than 40 million.

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Therefore, Canada is still improving its healthcare system and has started adopting new
management systems so that the healthcare system can be modified (Deber, 2003).
Answer 2
Healthcare or Medicare system in Canada is funded by public or government or single
payer healthcare system of Canada. This country does not have a single healthcare system
instead it is composed of 13 provinces and territorial healthcare insurance plans which aims to
provide the Canadian population, residents and some specific non-residents with medical
coverage through universal healthcare coverage (Martin et al., 2018). The publicly financed
healthcare is estimated to contribute by 11.1% in GDP and according to this stat more than 70%
of total healthcare costs are covered through public or governmental healthcare sources. The
primary source of healthcare funding in Canada are the general and territorial funding process
the public organization provides cash funding to the provinces and uses Canada health transfer
that determines more than 24% of total province and regions healthcare costs. Through this
public healthcare service, service, out pocket spacing on healthcare and cost-sharing and safety
nets are covered. These monies are obtained from central government public funds, the local and
province based funds, employers and their funds and from public and private combined funds
(Martin et al., 2018).
In case of Canada, the province and central government should agree to each-others terms
so that the fund sharing arrangements can be done in compliance with each other. However in
case of the United States of America, such funding process is replaced by the social insurance
strategy and USA believes that funding process are should be applied on single payer basis so
that rigidity in the process can be avoided. Further, without implementing Medicare or insurance