Running head: HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH CARE

Health Status and Health Care Services in Canada with Comparison to the United States
Bonny Tiley
DeVry University, HSM 310
In the following literature, the Canadian health care system will be compared in detail to the United States health care system. There are two very different health care systems between Canada and the United states. They each have their own difficulties within their own systems and are currently trying to find ways to improve these particular issues. The Universal Health Care system is used in Canada; this provides coverage to all the citizens of Canada (Canadian Health Care, 2007). It is executed on either a territorial or provincial basis, staying within the guidelines that have been made by the federal government (Canadian Health Care, 2007). The United States on the other hand has a hugely private system, with multiple payers, leaving the US citizens no choice other than to pay out of one’s own pocket in order to obtain health insurance, also Americans are not fully insured or even partially insured like the citizens of Canada are (Canadian Health Care, 2007). Each country spends a large amount of funding for their health care systems. Canada had spent over eleven percent of its overall GDP on health care, the United States on the other hand had spent 17.4 percent of its overall GDP this year (United North America, 2013). On the other hand, Canada has been shown to spend much less of the GDP on their health care, but it still has been shown to be superior to the U.S. on two of the more common health care measures, such as the infant mortality rate and the life expectancy rate (United North America, 2013). Each country is very different from each other, but they also both have similar problems with the management of their health care systems. Canada guarantees that all their citizens