HE302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Health Care In Canada, Cost Accounting
Document Summary
We are in a debate about inancing and organizaion. The canadian health care system is rooted in changing relaionships between state and society, levels of government and in speciic provincial experiences. Health care is an expensive proposiion no mater who pays it: large responsibility for government, pooling the risks, redistribuing cost of care, regulatory levers to control the costs. What the money needs to be spent on in terms of quality and access, and where it will be most efecively deploted. We are at a crossroads about how we pay hospitals, reimburse physicians, guarantee reasonable access and coordinate speciic services. Canada lacks a coordinaion mechanism for health care policy making to meet speciic goals in: cost control, organizaion of care, measurement of quality in outcomes. There is a need for cross-provincial learning that is emerging in canada. There is a need for provincial and territorial eforts. Perennial challeges such as pharmacare, electronic health records.
