Author: National Advisory Council on Aging (Canada)

Publisher: The Council

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 72

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This report examines a threat to both the overall cost & the fairness of health care in Canada: the highly variable & growing personal expenditures across the country for services not insured by the Canada Health Act. It assesses the health & financial burden to seniors in the areas of home care, medication, long-term residential care, and other health expenses, and describes the wide variations across Canada in the access that seniors have to public coverage and in the level of costs levied for services. The report also proposes a more equitable system, compares different models of health care service financing, explores political & financial feasibility and social justice aspects of the proposal, and makes recommendations for the planned & gradual implementation of a health care system offering a complete range of services.