Canada: the real issues

Article Abstract:

Canada's centralized, publicly-funded health care system is popular because it sets the country apart from the US and its privately-funded system. This popularity also arises from the government's success in framing a system that is universal, comprehensive, accessible, portable and nonprofit. Although health insurance in Canada is socialized, people can choose among health care providers freely. For Canadians the issue hereafter will be how to better manage this successful system, belying the claims of those who defend the US status quo by misrepresenting Canadian health policy.

Medical care

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On being old and sick: the burden of health care for the elderly in Canada and the United States

Article Abstract:

A comparison of health care cost data shows that elderly Americans pay far more than elderly Canadians. This finding indicates that Canada's publicly-funded health insurance system is much more successful at saving the elderly from impoverishment due to expensive health care than is the mostly private US system. Older Americans are less healthy and more dissatisfied with their health care even though it costs substantially more. Older Canadians use their health services at about the same rate of growth as the Americans despite the difference in costs.

Health aspects, Aged, Elderly, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs

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Belgium and the Netherlands revisited

Article Abstract:

The authors compare and contrast efforts by the governments of Belgium and the Netherlands to reform their health care services and contain costs. Topics include the roles of government and health insurers, managed competition reform measures, and common issues in health care for the near future.

Netherlands, Belgium, Managed care plans (Medical care), Health care reform, National health insurance

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