HLTH245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canada Health Infoway, Nurse Practitioner, Postpartum Period
24 Aug 2016
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Funding refers to how health care is paid for delivery refers to how health care services are managed, structured, and distributed. Funding and delivery of canada"s health care are through a mix of public and private organizations. All medically necessary health care services are publicly funded but are mostly delivered by private businesses. Most funding is form federal, provincial/territorial and municipal government and corporate taxes. Bc and ontario require eligible residents (making over 20k/year) to pay health care premiums even though they are not mandated by the canada. 30% of health care spending comes from consumers" pockets/private insurance and 70% covered through public health plans. Cruel reality #1: hospitals/regions are on their own to come up with usually about 20% of annual revenue. Cruel reality #2: government funding is rarely adequate to meet the remaining 80% of budgeted needs of the hospital/region. Cruel reality #3: health care is expensive, we spent . 5 billion in in.
