Health Insurance in Canada and Its Administration
All of us very well know that health insurance is really very important and one must take this really very much seriously. One must look for it with a lot of care and also seriousness. One must get details and information about all the insurance plans from all the different health insurance companies, agencies and providers in order to choose the best among all of them.
A very large number of health insurances in Canada are very truly administered by each of the province, under the act known as the Canada Health Act, which very truly requires each and every person to really have free access to Health services that are really the basic health services. So here the access is totally free.
Collectively, the health insurance system that is public in Canada is very well known as Medicare. The health insurance that is very truly private is also really allowed, but the provincial governments very truly allow it only for the services that are very truly the public health plans do not cover. For instance, private rooms or semi-private rooms in hospitals and also the prescription drug plans.
The people of Canada are very truly free to use insurance that is really private, for medical services that are very truly elective such as cosmetic surgery, vision correction surgery, and also a very large number of non-basic medical procedures. Almost around 70% of the people of Canada have few form of supplementary private insurance for health; a very large number of them very truly receive it through their own employers.
In the year 2005, the Supreme Court very truly ruled in Chaoulli vs. Quebec, that the prohibition of the province on the private insurance for health care very truly already insured by the provincial plan could really constitute an infringement of the security and the right to life if there were any kind of long wait times for the medical treatment as happened in cases like this.
Also some other provinces very truly have legislation which really financially discourages but does not forbid health insurance that is very truly private, in all those areas that are really covered by the public plans. This ruling of the Supreme Court has not at all changed the whole pattern of insurance of health across Canada but has very truly spurred on all the attempts to tackle the hard issues of demand and supply the impact of wait times.
Alien
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July 28th, 2010 at 4:07 am
Why are the Obama administration and Democrats using such pathetic tactics to push their health care bill?
They are fear mongering as the libs like to say by tell everyone that it will be disastrous if "we" don’t have a huge reform of the health care system. They are putting out commercials promoting health care or threatening some kind of disaster, or they are getting third parties to make them.
They say that the Republicans and conservatives are playing up the amount of people who don’t want reform and claim that the vast majority do want it.
And when nothing else works, rather than trying to make a legitimate point, they blame Republicans or make slanderous remarks about them.
For example. When Republicans say that if they are going to have major reform it should be a slow, controlled reform over time rather than just changing things all at once in one big push like the president want’s to do, Democrats and Liberal independents say the Republican party gets nothing done or is against progress (which anyone with a brain would know is BS)
example: Senator Bernard Sanders, A far left independent from VT said,"the Republicans are the party of do-nothingism, and because of them it is very hard to move forward"
So what is with the crappy tactics? Can’t they just accept that there are a lot of people out there that don’t want Obama’s health care reform?
Also, don’t people realize that free health care is far from free? Canada has "free" health care but are taxed through the roof. I think it is something like a 15% federal tax. Not to mention the hospitals get backed up because you have to go through a bureaucratic system that will be larger and more complicated than private health insurance. And what of those who work for health insurance companies?… I smell massive job losses.
John S – I don’t know about Ron Paul, but we need a third major party, I’m no fan of the two party system either.
I love how so many people are saying the Republicans and conservatives who are protesting is pathetic. Maybe you all forgot about how liberals had that down to an art during the Bush administration.
i’ve never listened to Limbaugh and probably wouldn’t recognize him if i saw him
July 28th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Desperation borne of the fear of being found out to be the frauds they really are.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:11 am
"Pathetic tactics"….like talking to people about what they are trying to do?….yeah…that’s terrible…
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:13 am
is that you GW?
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:15 am
I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Why don’t liberals simply step up and DEFEND their health care bill. When angry Americans pop up at town hall meetings questioning the bill, why not have them turn to page XXX and show them exactly why it’s in their best interests? Give them the PROOF they want from the bill itself? Why do they have to duck, dodge, and dive out of the way of Americans who HAVE read the bill and don’t like it?
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:17 am
If its so pathetic….I don’t understand why you are so frightened by it.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:19 am
because democrats can’t accomplish anything without resorting to thuggery
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:21 am
When did Democrats request all Republican changes be done slowly?
The tax cuts of 2001? No.
The tax cuts of 2003? No.
The Republican deregulation of lending during Clinton’s term? No.
Bush’s 2008 corporate bailout? No.
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Any others?
July 28th, 2010 at 9:23 am
They want total government control over every aspect of your life, down to your relationship between you and your doctor. This isn’t cheap either, people are all for it because they think it’s free. That would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Wow. An unbelievable example of transference: Projecting your own weakness onto the opposition.
It is the Republicans who are lying about it all and using fear tactics.
Producing commercials promoting reform of the nation’s broken health-care payment system… How dare they!
Here’s how they dare: Because it must be done. The debate of whether to have health care reform is over, and the liberals won it last November 4. The only remaining debate is as to how to do it.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Because they cannot use the facts to support their proposal to take over 1/7th of the GDP so they have to blame someone or something. Isn’t that the foundation of Obama’s Administration "take no blame".
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:29 am
this 15 second video tells it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3QeH-z2CbU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffloridasecuritycouncil%2Eorg%2F&feature=player_embedded
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:31 am
"When Republicans say that if they are going to have major reform it should be a slow, controlled reform over time rather than just changing things all at once in one big push " Like the Patriot act? Both parties suck at life. We should have voted in Ron Paul.
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Common sense
July 28th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Its all part of their socialist plan, control health care and you control the people, that is why, federal employees are exempt from the plan, if it is not good enough for them then it is not good enough for me. Not to mention the fact that it will further harm an already wrecked economy.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:35 am
when are republicans going to realize that our health insurance system is a joke? Health insurance shouldn’t be a business because what is the main goal of a company? the health and welfare of the public? no, it’s money.
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a 20 year old who will be uninsurable once i’m too old for my parents policy and spends $1000+ a month on prescriptions
July 28th, 2010 at 9:37 am
So when Cons stage astro turf shouting matches its "democracy" but when Dems have a civil disocurse on health care its "pathetic"?
This is why the Dems will win on health care reform.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Because all of America is not falling into line the way the dems thought. We are not standing by and quietly allowing them to do what they please. They are scared and their tactics prove it. They are desperate for approval, of which they are not getting. Maybe there is hope for America yet. Not all of us are willing to mindlessly follow Obama and his heard.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Health insurance profits are up 400% in seven years. You can keep paying the Fat Cats, I’m with Obama.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:43 am
"don’t people realize that free health care is far from free?" Yes. Its only the deaf Right wingers who push this ridiculous notion that people are after "free" insurance coverage.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Because the Republicans are playing FOUL. Pushing lies to scare the american people against the healthcare bill
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:47 am
The democrats are scum that care only about power. I call Pelosi "yeast infection" (sick smelly discharge from hole that no one wants to be near; fits her) and her buddy Hoyer "stinky odor".. they like name-calling; use names for them. Only fair.,
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Yup talking to people is pathetic. Providing they can be heard over the disruptive screaming from the protesters. Now that’s pathetic. Do you remember that health care was voted down in 1993? What is fast about 16 years? Did you know that health care was a plank in the Bull Moose party platform of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. What is fast about 97 years?
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:51 am
The system is already a failure?! It is a market failure of colossal proportions. No other industrialized nation on earth has made the same mistakes we have in allowing private, for profit insurers to wreck our system. Obama didn’t have to do a thing. The system broke itself from its’ internal contradictions. The American people are tired of waiting for a fix while the health industry lobbysists thwart reform again and again.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Wow – talk about the pot calling the kettle black? Wake -up! Get your head out of Rush Limbaugh’s ass!
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Exactly how slow are we supposed to go? The healthcare coverage in the United States is ranked #37 in the world by the World Health Organization and yet we spend almost twice as much as any other country, enough to cover everybody with excellent comprehensive healthcare.
We’ve been talking about the fact that we need to fix our health care system for thirty years, and everyone has always liked to make big promises that they’re the ones that are going to do something about it, because promises make people happy. Now, someone is finally saying, "The buck stops here…we’re making changes, and we’re going to start making them now."
This is scaring a lot of people. No one can deny that it’s easy to talk about change, but when it comes time to actually DO it, it can be scary. Up until now, though, NO ONE has offered anything better. NO ONE has even made an effort.
Bernard Sanders was absolutely right. The republican party likes to talk big about how they’re going to fix everything, and they have DONE NOTHING. They’ve been in power for the past eight years and things are worse than they’ve ever been.
Look…if the republicans have something of value to put on the table, then they’d better stop hurling criticism at Obama and put it out there.
If they have one single practical, intelligent idea, where is it? Let’s hear something more substantial from the republicans than "let’s give more money to the big corporations, that’ll fix everything."
And Drew…they ARE trying to tell you to "turn to page XXX, and here are the facts…" but these people don’t want to LISTEN. They’re so caught up in the b/s that they’re being fed from people like Rush Limbaugh, that they don’t want to hear ANYTHING that doesn’t back up their desire to believe that Obama is "out to get them". If they really want to know the answers, WHY is their tactic to scream over people who are trying to ANSWER their questions, so the answers can’t be heard? If they really want to know the answers, why…when they’re given answers, do they then turn around and spread the same misinformation again and again? It says a lot that almost EVERY argument against the health care bill is based on misinformation. If someone can’t argue against the bill based on the actual information IN the bill, then it’s no argument at all.
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Pathetic as in telling the truth?
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July 28th, 2010 at 9:59 am
I am Canadian (St. John’s, Newfoundland) and may I say our hospitals are not in any way backed up. I have no idea where you got your information but unless you live here, please don’t say anything about our health care without further study. What your president wants to do is curb the privatization of your health care. Right now HMOs are in charge of what health care you recieve and in many ways thats more scarey for they have only one priority which is to make money. And to clarify our federal taxes are not 15%, try 7%.
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