Hmmm, there's some factors in there that need to be addressed.
1) Short-term (20-30) years, healthcare costs are definitely going to continnue rising faster than GDP. The Baby Boomers are getting old, and old people require more health care and attention than young people.
2) The BC government has overstated the problem, by stating healthcare as a percentage of provincial revenue. It appears they have failed to account for the variability within the revenue stream.
3) As I understand it, Canada is actually one of a few countries that has a purely private health care system.
Personally, I would like to learn a lot more about the health care systems of Japan, France, and Norway. Japan's seems to be the most effective, France seems to be the best value, and Norway is a kind of middle of the road for developed nations.
Actually, that's not quite true, I'd like the people who are interested in health care to spend a lot more time studying the health care systems of every industrialized nation and comparing and contrasting how they work, so I don't have to. I want them to summarize the systems for me, and show how those countries with dual private/public systems have faired in comparison to the U.S. (the only "pure" private system) and Canada (and other "pure" public systems).
I want to know what challenges they've had to face, what problems they have right now, and what problems they predict for the future. I want to know what they've found that works and what doesn't work.
And I want it summarized in plain english with appendices that explain the nitty-gritty details on each.
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Date: 2006-09-27 05:36 pm (UTC)1) Short-term (20-30) years, healthcare costs are definitely going to continnue rising faster than GDP. The Baby Boomers are getting old, and old people require more health care and attention than young people.
2) The BC government has overstated the problem, by stating healthcare as a percentage of provincial revenue. It appears they have failed to account for the variability within the revenue stream.
3) As I understand it, Canada is actually one of a few countries that has a purely private health care system.
Personally, I would like to learn a lot more about the health care systems of Japan, France, and Norway. Japan's seems to be the most effective, France seems to be the best value, and Norway is a kind of middle of the road for developed nations.
Actually, that's not quite true, I'd like the people who are interested in health care to spend a lot more time studying the health care systems of every industrialized nation and comparing and contrasting how they work, so I don't have to. I want them to summarize the systems for me, and show how those countries with dual private/public systems have faired in comparison to the U.S. (the only "pure" private system) and Canada (and other "pure" public systems).
I want to know what challenges they've had to face, what problems they have right now, and what problems they predict for the future. I want to know what they've found that works and what doesn't work.
And I want it summarized in plain english with appendices that explain the nitty-gritty details on each.