The two countries, Canada and the USA, used to have the same health care system late in the 1970s. Canada changed its system in the after 1970s. The public policy analyst, public health, and government always make the comparison of the health care system in the two countries. The USA spent uses a lot of money on the health care services as compared to Canada. For examples, in 2005, the per-capita spending on health care services was approximately US$3,679. In the USA, it was approximately US$6,715. In the same year, the USA spent around 15.4% of GDP on health care services. In Canada, the health care spending accounted GDP was around 10.0%. During this period, the 75% of the health care spending was supported by the government in Canada (Barbera …show more content…
The main difference here is the health insurance. The government in Canada provides the financial support to the provincial administrations for the expenditures on healthcare. In this country, Canada, private boards and not the government control the hospitals. The Canadian health care system offers public coverage for both private and public delivery (Swayne et al. 2012). In the USA, the government only does funding to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid, and Medicare. It covers children, people with disabilities, and the poor. The USA federal government runs the Veterans Administration. It provides the disabled and retired veterans, plus their families with clinics and health centers. The government runs the military Health System in the …show more content…
9% of the population purchase insurance on their own while 16% were uninsured. The census above was carried out in the year 2007. According the 2003 report by the congressional budget office, it was shown that many people do not have health insurance only for a short duration. An example is after one employer and a new employment. The number of uninsured citizens by the year 1998 was between 21 million to 31 million. Another study compared access to health care services based on immigrant status in the USA and Canada. The results revealed that the immigrants had poor access to health care than non-immigrant in both countries. In particular, the immigrants staying in Canada were not likely to have early Pap tests as compared to the Canadians themselves. The immigrants in the USA were less likely to have a frequent medical doctor and consultation annually with physicians as compared to the Native Americans. This describes that the immigrants in the country of Canada had better access to health care services as compared to the immigrants in the United