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The NACA position on enhancing the Canadian health care system
— this position was unanimously adopted by NACA members on September 7, 2000 following on the 59th Council Meeting | | Corporate Author | National Advisory Council on Aging (Canada) |
| Publisher | National Advisory Council on Aging, Ottawa, 2000 |
| Pages | 27 pp (The NACA Position, no 21) |
| Source | National Advisory Council on Aging, Postal Locator: 1908A1, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Costs [care] ; Canada. |
| Annotation | There is an insidious threat to both the overall cost and the fairness of health care in Canada: that of highly variable and growing personal expenditures across the country for services not insured by the Canada Health Act (CHA). This was touched on in a previous position paper, "The NACA position on the privatisation of health care". This position paper re-examines the health and financial burden to older people of home care, medication, long-term residential care and other health expenses. It describes the wide variation across Canada in older people's access to public coverage, and in the level of costs levied for services. The report concludes that Canada is in a favourable economic position to extend the range of health services provided, and evidence suggests that the overall costs of the health system are sustainable. The text is in English and French. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001113207 B |
| Classmark | L: QDC: 7S |
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