Canadian Health Care VS. U.S. Health Care

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Term Paper Title	Canadian Health Care VS. U.S. Health Care
# of Words	320
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.28

Canadian Health Care VS. U.S. Health Care

One of the major differences between the U.S. and Canadian health care system is the payment system.  In the United States, physicians are paid more for doing more, and the return on their time is higher if they perform a procedure than if they use their cognitive skills.  Because of the fact that procedures often require hospital care, this approach translates into higher expenditures for hospital care.  In Canada, Physicians operate under a system of free schedules and overall provicial limits on health spending, and they have no incentive to increase the number of procedures.
    In Canada patients are virtually fully insured.  There are also no deductibles or copayments.  Canadian physicians are mostly reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis.  There are also very little use made of the prepaid group practices that have grown so rapidly in the United States.
    Another major difference is the fact of the govern...

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