Socialized Medicine in Canada: A Personal Perspective

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Socialized Medicine in Canada A Personal
Perspective

• Barbara Schneiderman

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Population Comparisons
33.4 million
37 million
307.2 million
Source https//www.cia.gov/library/publications/t
he-world-factbook/
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Canadas Socialized Medicine Timeline
Source http//www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/pubs/system
-regime/2005-hcs-sss/time-chron_e.html
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How Canadian social systems are funded
Sales Taxes GST 5 PST 7.5
Source Berish, Howard, FCA. 2007 Year End Tax
Planning. SNG Collins Barrow, 2007.
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Where your taxes go
2. Intelligence Repot. Parade Magazine. March 16,
2008. www.Parade.com/intel
1. http//money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/econo
my/bailouttracker/
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Where your salary goes
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Where your salary goes
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Government Health Care Spending as a Percentage
of GDP
Source Projecting the Past into the Future.
National Center for Policy Analysis. December
2005.
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Choosing no treatment due to cost
Source 2004 Commonwealth Fund International
Health Policy Survey
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Benchmark Wait Times in Canada
Source Waiting for Access CBC News. November
29, 2006, http//www.cbc.ca/news/background/health
care/waiting.html
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Personal Stories
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Auntie G

• 73 year old single female, kidney tumor

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Mother

• 54 year old female, lymphoma

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Uncle I.

• 79 year old male, gastroenterologist, lung cancer

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Brother

• 49 year old male, stem cell transplant,
  non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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Giving birth in Canada

• Timeframes and Caps

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Two cases of heart valve replacement

• 78 83 year old females

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Premier Robert Bourassa

• Melanoma treatment
• National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

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George Zeliotis

• Supreme Court of Canada Wait times violate
  Quebecs charter of rights freedoms

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Conclusions

• You Decide!!