Many countries have been struggling to determinate whether health care should be either public or private or maybe both. Governments are always trying to decide what is best for the population because their job is to keep the community healthy. In this essay, I argue that Canada should provide all their citizens with public health care supporting more liberalism ideas and not implementing private healthcare. I claim that Canada should provide public healthcare because helps to achieve equal opportunities and because healthcare is a human necessity citizens should receive. I then address the counterarguments that private healthcare could provide some benefits to Canadians because patients do not have to wait too long to have an appointment,
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Canada is a good example of the principles of welfare state Liberalism because they provide everyone the right to have healthcare. However, Canada is only 70 per cent public because they have the insurance plan that citizens or companies have to pay for. These insurance plans only cover the outpatient drugs, non- acute long- term care, and dental and vision care. Canada’s Public healthcare covers health and physical services that are consider it as needs for citizens. In 1984 Canada created the “Canada Health Act (CHA)”, which is “ to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well- being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers”. This bill helps assuring everyone to receive the right to have healthcare. The Health Act established that no matter their social status or the person background all would get medical services. Hospitals or physicians cannot charge them for these necessary services or they would be penalized. Having healthcare is a human necessity, which is something that you cannot buy. If healthcare in Canada was not public many Canadians would be not able to acquire medical services and probably their health would get worse or they may
Canada is a good example of the principles of welfare state Liberalism because they provide everyone the right to have healthcare. However, Canada is only 70 per cent public because they have the insurance plan that citizens or companies have to pay for. These insurance plans only cover the outpatient drugs, non- acute long- term care, and dental and vision care. Canada’s Public healthcare covers health and physical services that are consider it as needs for citizens. In 1984 Canada created the “Canada Health Act (CHA)”, which is “ to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well- being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers”. This bill helps assuring everyone to receive the right to have healthcare. The Health Act established that no matter their social status or the person background all would get medical services. Hospitals or physicians cannot charge them for these necessary services or they would be penalized. Having healthcare is a human necessity, which is something that you cannot buy. If healthcare in Canada was not public many Canadians would be not able to acquire medical services and probably their health would get worse or they may