Medicare

-MEDICARE- Many articles have been written about the medicare program in Canada. It's a real intense topic in Canada today. This brief essay is based on the costs of medicare , an introduction to the medicare program, and if our country Canada can afford the medicare program. Each province supports a medicare program. The medicare plans were started in 1961-1962. Canada has a highest common financed, privately delivered health care system that is best descibed as …showed first 75 words of 255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 255 total…province. Canadians do not pay immediately for insured hospital and physicians services, nor are they required to fill out forms for insured services. There are no deductibles, co-payments or dollar limits on coverage for insured services. Dentists, for example, work independantly of the health care system, except where in-hospital dental surgery is required while nurses are usually employed in the hospital sector. They also provide community health care including home care and public health services.