Canadians willing to spend public money on health care. (Health).SASKATOON Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. -- Eighty-eight per cent of Canadians say that a strong,
national, publicly-funded health care Publicly funded health care is a health care system that is financed entirely or in majority part by citizens' tax payments instead of through private payments made to insurance companies or directly to health care providers (health insurance premiums, copayments or deductibles). system is important to them,
according to according toprep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report released by the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Canada's health care system is a publicly funded health care system, with most services provided by private entities. While the Canadian government calls it a "public system,[1][2], it is not "socialized medicine". . Canadians are also willing to spend public money to ensure quality, and feel deep discomfort with any system that would limit access to services because of an inability to pay, says Canadians' Thoughts on Their Health Care System: Preserving the Canadian Model Through Innovation. Author Professor Matthew Mendelsohn Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian university professor and public policy consultant. He is the deputy minister of the Ontario government's Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs and also the Deputy Minister responsible for the Democratic Renewal Secretariat. of Queen's University Queen's University, at Kingston, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1841 as Queen's College. It achieved university status in 1912. It has faculties of arts and sciences, education, law, medicine, and applied science, as well as schools of and his team analyzed all available public opinion research on the health care system collected since 1985, with an emphasis on findings since 1996. The overwhelming public response to perceived deterioration in the system has not been to reconsider the model, but to call for governments to fix the system through better collaboration and management, more spending and small modifications, Mendelsohn said. The report also said: * quality and accessibility stand out as principles that Canadians most strongly support * fewer than one in l0 support cutting access to certain services * Canadians are prepared for reforms in the organization of primary care and other aspects of care but not at the expense of core principles * the number of people who say the system is excellent or good dropped from 61 per cent in 1991 to 29 per cent in 2000 * Canadians support an active role for all governments in health care * Support for private models has never inched beyond one-third of the Canadian population * people expect more controls on how money is spent to ensure that it is spent in the most efficient way possible. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion