Should canada has free healthcare or privitiazed health care?

[SmileyDeath]

What do you think?

[Waverly]

All healthcare should be free. So should liquor.

Could you flesh this question out a bit? I realize you may be busy starting yet another thread… which is OK with me, so long as they make sense.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/care/

Canada has a predominantly publicly-financed, privately-delivered health care system known to Canadians as Medicare. It provides access to universal, comprehensive coverage for medically necessary hospital, in-patient and out-patient physician services. Most doctors are private practitioners who work in independent or group practices, enjoy a high degree of autonomy, and are generally paid on a fee-for-service basis. The federal government, the ten provinces, and the three territories have key roles to play in the health care system in Canada.

The federal government is responsible for:

setting and administering national principles or standards for the health care system (for example, through the Canada Health Act)
assisting in the financing of provincial health care services through fiscal transfers;
delivering direct health services to specific groups including veterans, native Canadians, persons living on reserves, military personnel, inmates of federal penitentiaries and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
fulfilling other health-related functions such as health protection, disease prevention, and health promotion.

The provincial and territorial governments are responsible for:

managing and delivering health services,
planning, financing, and evaluating the provision of hospital care, physician and allied health care services, and
managing some aspects of prescription care and public health

So you’re asking us to debate whether or not to dismantle this system that’s already in place?

[SmileyDeath]

*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose *
**http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/care/
So you’re asking us to debate whether or not to dismantle this system that’s already in place? **

Yes.
I can’t post in a couple of minutes- I’m at school.

[Grey]

A better question might be “Should Canadian governments stop dealing with operational concerns in the delivery of health care and concentrate on supplying funding for health coverage; or should Canadian governments fund/operate and deliver health care themselves.”

[Crusoe]

Any specific reason why you think it should be dismantled?

There have been some quite thorough debates here on private vs public medicine.

[bernse]

I’m pretty much indifferent. If private insurance can cover what I need, why not? As a Canadian, I already pay for my dental insurance coverage through a private firm. I don’t think I’d mind paying extra for more health coverage as long as my paycheck deductions that are funding public health care fall at least a similar amount.

I would, however, like a safety net set up for the unemployed so they are covered, though.

My .02 (which I have not thoroughly thought out, but my from-the-hip response)

[ElJeffe]

A shallow, soundbite answer to a shallow, soundbite question:

Privatized.

Jeff