Chapter 3 Media Article
"Supreme Court ruling has troubling implications for public healthcare" Edmonton Journal, June 14, 2005A ruling in Canada says that Quebec's ruling about having private healthcare, underminds Canadian citizens rights to life and security. When Canada's Health Act was passed in the 1980's it states that everyone would be covered under a "unfied provincial insurance system". The government relied on the single payer for public health care because it would ensure that equal access would be made for health care and that it was also the most cost effective.
A monopoly is established for public insurers to allow them to have equal rights to the health care that they are entitled to. "It violates the right of private sector insurers to market their products, and it violates the right of citizens to purchase these private insurance products."
The Justice Courts do not want to ban private health care because if the public sector doesn't provide the services, then people's lives are at risk. Then the private sector would be able to provide people with what they need.
If waitlists are not dramatically lower, the chances of this decision of having private health care will be coming soon. The people that will be affected will be us and our universality will be at state. Then Canada's Health Care Act will no longer be in act as the risk of not having equal access to this resource will be gone.
In Relation to Chapter 3:
The health care system in Canada is public for the most part. So it is a natural Monopoly. But then again, there are some private companies out there to provide services to the public if the wait lists are too long for them to seek treatment. Also there are third party effects. I don't like the fact that if this ruling will become a reality, that people that do not have the funds to access health care will not get that they need. So we are the third party to this situation.
posted by Meghan @ 9:45 PM
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