Government Vs. Public Health System

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In many countries, controversy surrounds the roles of government and the health system.

While bigger states such as The United States and Russia have many public hospitals that

could really overcome the demands for the patients, other countries such as South Africa have

very poor governments hospitals were patients have to procure medications by themselves. In

Canada, we have two types of health systems: public and private system. The first type of

health system, public system, is owned by the government and where the medical health care

services are provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay. The second type of health

system, private system, is more based on the ability to pay rather the treatment – one
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In addition, due to the large amount of people in need for medical attention, there is a penury of staff, which has a major impact on the overall quality of the public health system care.
Private clinics are owned and controlled by private companies rather than the government. The services of private hospitals are mostly available for people that have money – with money they obtain several advantages such as immediate admission, free choice of the doctors and even the date for their consultation according to their schedule. In addition, patients in private clinics do not have restrictions comparing to patients in public clinics (i.e.) the visiting hours are unlimited and the patients have the same doctor through all the procedure comparing to the public system where patients have different doctors or nurses. In private clinics, patients benefit from new equipments and specific attention.
Patients have their own personal room so that they could rest in complete peace. ( citation) Private clinics should be allowed in the medical system because it provides more attention to each patient, there is no restrictions upon them and there is no waiting
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According to the Canadian-healthcare, most of the funding comes from public sources and the rest coming from private sources such as businesses and private insurance, which creates a flow in the Canadian economic system. Also, a percentage of the total net income from the private clinics goes to the government, which demonstrates that private clinics have a positive impact on the government’s economy. Private health care does not affect a country’s economy because people who choose to go to private clinics will still have to pay their taxes. According to a law professor of the University of Toronto, the jewel of Canada’s health care system is the commitment to restrict private finance for medical

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