Health Care in Canada
Arguments both for and against the privatisation of Canada’s health care are plentiful. There is evidence by looking at any Canadian newspaper, television news program, or news oriented website on the Internet. Election polls consistently rank health care as Canadian voter’s number one concern (Wickens, 2000, 26). Reasons for supporting a two-tier system include reducing line-ups in the so called “cashstrapped” system (Fennell, 1996, 54), and to allow Canadian doctors a financially viable alternative to the United States by presenting the option to set your own wages as well as the luxury of more flexible working hours. Supporters of the blended privatepublic system insist that privatisation is required to advance technology and decline government budgets (Vanagas, 1995, 24). However, those worried about a change in the way this country delivers its health care feel a two-tier system would be “unCanadian” (26). In this paper I will attempt to discover for the positives and negatives of an implementation of a twotier health care system in my home province of New Brunswick as well as the rest of Canada. Twotier health care can be simply defined as a health care plan that will allow for a pr
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Approximate Word count = 2261
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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