Week 5 - The Canadian Health Care System Flashcards
(27 cards)
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History Saskatchewan - 1947
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- Tommy Douglas establishes a universal hospital care program
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History Saskatchewan - 1961
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- Law establishing universal health care coverage passed
3
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History Saskatchewan - 1962
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- Doctors strike and Saskatoon agreement
4
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What was the Saskatoon agreement
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- Put in place in order to stop doctors strike
- Allowed doctors to charge more on top of what government was paying
5
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History Canada - 1957
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- Hospital insurance and diagnostic services act created
6
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History Canada - 1965
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- Hall commission 1 report created
7
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History Canada - 1966
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- Medical care act created
8
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History Canada - 1979
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- Hall commission 2 report created
9
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History Canada - 1984
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- Canada Health act
10
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How does federalism affect health care
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- Hugely consequential
- Requires cooperation for funding, regulating, and reforming
- Source of tension
11
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What does single payer mean
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- One group paying for all health care
12
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How are fees for health care services determined
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- Fees negotiated between provinces and provincial medical associations
13
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2 types of ways that Canadians access care
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- Primary health care
- Secondary services
14
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Primary health care
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- Direct provision of care
- Coordinates patients access to health care system for specialized care
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Secondary services
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- Delivered at hospital, long term, care facility, or other clinic
- Provinces pay for certain home care services
- Federal government provides home care services to first nations on reserve and some Inuit communities
16
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5 principles of medicare
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- Universality of coverage
- Portability of coverage
- Reasonable accessibility to services
- Comprehensiveness of services
- Public administration
17
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Universality of coverage
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- All people have access to quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship
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Portability of coverage
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- Allows one to continue coverage under the same group policy by paying premiums directly to the insurance company
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Reasonable accessibility to services
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- The provinces are to ensure that services are “reasonably accessible” and that financial charges or other barriers do not impede access
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Comprehensiveness of services
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- ‘The provision, either directly or indirectly, of a full range of services to meet most patients’ healthcare needs’
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Public administration
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- Payments have to be controlled and run by the provinces
22
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What has shifted in federal funding over time
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- Cost sharing to block funding
- The percentage of funding paid by the federal government decreased
- Whether funds are put together with other social costs
23
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How did health care used to be funded
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- Established Programs Financing (EPF)
- Canada Assistance Plan (CAP)
- Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST)
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How is health care funded now
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- Canada Health Transfer (CHT)
- Canada Social Transfer (CST)
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Current issues in health care
- Growing costs
- Decreased federal contributions
- Tension between federal gov and provinces
- Privatization and user fees
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Health care reforms
- Not simply providing more money
- Deploying existing resources more efficiently
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US health outcomes
- Spends the most per capita
