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I was asked by Jeff Coleman a student here the USA to post his recent speech based report for School that he will Present to in school tomorrow.
There is no greater issue that affects the world's population than healthcare. Healthcare is the single most common affair that affects every person in the world, but in unique and personal circumstances. To preserve a high standard of life and quality health, a society must establish a healthcare system that is just and balanced. In the process of designing a healthcare system for a society, one must realize due to the complicated personal nature of one's healthcare there has never been a perfectly designed system to deliver healthcare to a society.
In my opinion I would favor a system without any middlemen whether it be government or a private entity, rather a system based on patient to doctor payments. Thus, preventing unethical motivations of self interest whether it be monetary or political acclaim. With that said, I find the Canadian Healthcare system more favorable than our current American for-profit system. For the fact, the Canadian system does not unfairly discriminate based on personal economical and social class status compared to America's current healthcare system. The Canadian system is not unlike our current Medicaid system where as financial and policy oversight is shared between the federal government and provincial territories. Due to our recent political climate you may have heard various interpretations of Canada's healthcare system, without delving into lengthy detail, one of the most common key components to Canadian style healthcare opposition in the united States is reports of long waiting periods for medical attention. To understand the Canadian system you must comprehend the Canadian society, how the citizens view each other socially and how they prioritize each citizen recognizing that it requires every individual's contribution to each other to shape a pleasurable, civilized society for themselves, their future generations and fellow citizens to relish upon. Each providence has the majority control of policy regarding wait times and medical facilities, while the medical professionals are private and while the federal government primarily administers the financial obligations of the system. Some providences have adapted medical policy based on citizen feedback that is determined by social views of each citizen, while nearly every immediate medical emergency is prioritized and handled in a appropriate fashion comparable to the United States. While alternative or elective procedures are treated based on a severity scale. Canada is not unlike the US for rural areas, in both countries suffer from a shortage of medical professionals. Contrary to America's current system that emphasizes on high cost specialty care which in itself resulted in an ever increasing shortage of American primary physicians due to the high incentives of specialty care. The Canadian system highly targets preventative measures to ensure the everyday health of their citizens resulting in some providences to depreciate the value of specialty care, thus increasing waiting periods on selective, elective procedures.
In closing, I anticipate that many will strongly disagree with my opinion favoring the Canadian healthcare system, but I am confident that I have presented two different types of payment delivery systems attached to very similar healthcare systems. For they suffer similar short comings equally on the medical professional side of the spectrum and unequally at the point of access side of the spectrum. Despite the fact, that none of the current healthcare proposals of the past year for reforming the American healthcare system address the core and inherit, systemic flaws of our healthcare, I still believe that we could perfect upon the Canadian style system for far less the cost to maintain our defective system. In the end, there is only one ethical question a person needs to ask there self , "whether you want a society that is fair and just treating everyone equally or a society that allows a former president to skip his cardiologist appointment to be immediately seen the next day and hospitalized for heart surgery due to his financial and social status while millions suffer everyday"?
Source: Jeff Coleman & Researching consultant BCT
