Community Services

HealthCare: The Rural Perspective – Problems and Solutions

February 26, 2007 | PSD Research

Introduction It’s common knowledge that the United States and Canada have chosen different healthcare models. Canada utilizes a ‘publicly funded system’, where the Governments of Canada pay for most doctor and hospital costs. The United States uses a private system relying on private companies to provide health insurance, which can be purchased by individual citizens, but is often provided through employee benefits packages. This Digest article could argue endlessly, to no agreeable conclusion, that either of the above system outperforms the other. Both systems have a plethora of faults and benefits. Instead, this Digest article will focus on, and investigate a problem common to both the Canadian and American systems: the challenge of providing adequate healthcare to rural communities.   Healthcare and the Economy Adequate healthcare is a vital factor in ensuring quality of life. This is especially true in rural North Americ...