Canada National Health Insurance

In the Canadian health insurance system that ensures access to services comprehensively developed since  more than 50 years ago. Before the 1940s, Canadians get the health services by paying the their own pockets (out of pocket) in accordance with their respective abilities. Population are able to buy commercial health insurance, but most of the population can not afford it. It raises many issues of access and humanitarian due to the population can not afford health care needs. Businesses provide health coverage to all residents beginning in 1947 when the province started operation Saskathcwan compulsory health insurance / social,

which is often also referred to public health insurance, for hospital services only.

Ten years later, the federal government interested in extending the system guarantees provided by the provincial Saskatchwan. In 1956, the federal government stimulate other provinces to organize hospital care assurance by contributing 50% of the funds needed provinces. On 1961, all provinces and two territorial area has agreed to provide most are not guarantees of hospitalization. Up to the year, outpatient services on physician practice, either independently or group practice, remains to be paid by the residents.

Province Saskatchwan see it as a burden to residents might be shared, so that the provincial government started the expansion of insurance benefits public health by taking care outpatient physician outside the hospital. The federal government of Canada to see the benefits of comprehensive health insurance for population and economic growth in the province. Seeing that, the Federal government in 1968, decided to encourage other provinces to implement the insurance comprehensive health care. Four years later in 1972 the whole province has been provide comprehensive health insurance. In that aim Insurance National Health Canada reached.

Funding of the Medicare program for 20 years (since 1956) is borne shared by provincial and federal governments, each of equal size. In 1977 funding was no longer using the system of proportional cots needed, but the unconditional block grant per capita from the federal government to the provincial government. Form of block grants that give freedom to the government The province uses to fund other health programs, such as Additional packages of medicine for the elderly and dental care for children. In 1979, a study of Canadian health care system show that the system health in Canada is one of the best in the world. 

In the same study also found that many doctors who attract additional consulting fees directly in addition to patients who have been paid by the provincial government. The fact that threaten access to the population because there is an additional burden to finance the cost health service. In Health Canada's laws in 1984, fined the federal government to the provincial government for the cost drawn by physicians in the province are subtracted from the central funding, if province to allow physicians attract an additional charge of residents, suspected to be burdensome population and damage the national system. This policy is intended to allow entire population of Canada is free from the burden of huge costs if he or any member family sick.