Building a Health Care System for the 21st Century

This research paper will present literature in review on critically assessing the main arguments of the heated debate on the publicly versus privately financed health care system in Canada. Indeed a lot of contention has been raised in the last few years over the subject of so called "two-tier" healthcare. Although, universal healthcare is very cherished in Canada, there is a growing sentiment that introducing a private system will alleviate the burden on the public …

…additional financing, but the burden would be heavily concentrated on a small proportion of the aged-population chronically ill, and low-income. Privatization of the health care system in Canada represents one of the most dangerous projects in the recent years, targeting not only the foundation of these essential services, but moreover the very foundation of the Canadian society as a whole, the Canadian identity, and the Canadian traditional values which Canadians cherish and embrace so profoundly.