In these times, Canadians are concerned with many issues involving their health care. It is assumed that responsibility of providing solutions to improve health care falls to the Provincial and Federal governments In terms of the position of the Federal Parties have to improve healthcare for Canadian’s; The Liberal party feels that they have the best solution that will provide Canadians with the best results. It states that people will have the protection of Medicare and will help with concerns like: injury prevention, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, etc. The Conservative Party plan is to make several policy-developments to benefit Canada’s health care. They believe it will serve the security and well-being best for all Canadians. The last party involved in this issue is the NDP Party; who indicate that they are fighting hard for a better Health Care system in our economy. The NDP Party states that the income of a family should not dictate the quality of health care. Although none of these parties advocate the privatization of health care and allowing a two-tier health care system in the country, it certainly has its benefits as it will keep the best doctors and nurses in the Canada instead of them leaving the country for a higher salary elsewhere in the world thus reducing the current medical staff shortage in Canada , secondly it allows the wait times for medical procedures to be reduced since it allows people who can afford to pay out of their pocket access to private health care, and thirdly by taxing the profits of private health care providers, it can provide an extra revenue source that can be pumped into the Medicare to improve the system.

Despite the command of the Canada health act, which was supposed to assure universal, comprehensive, fair access, public administration and portability of our health care system, one of the biggest crises that the Canadian health care system faces is that Canada is losing highly skilled physicians and health care workers to other countries like the U.S.? It is possible to reverse this popular trend among health care workers. A privately funded health care system can rejuvenate health related research in Canada and virtually eliminate the exodus by doctors. Canada’s health care problems are primarily the result of federal and provincial cutbacks in an effort to eliminate the deficit (Soroka). Under the streamlining, governments have provided less money to the system resulting in hospital closures, lack of hospital beds, and operating rooms, cancellation or reduction of programs and restriction on the availability of new medical technologies (Soroka). All these have resulted in limiting the service provided by physicians to their patients. Also another problem exists with respect to the medical staff in the research community. Many talented Canadian scientists have been faced with a reduction of government funding for basic and clinical research. Among the G-8 nations, Canada ranks last in per capita spending for health research. Japan, France, the U.S. and the U.K. all spend between 1.5 and 3.5 times more than Canada does (Soroka). It is clear to see that many issues must be addressed to keep our doctors north of the border, as many physicians flee our system. Data from the Canadian Institute for health information (CIHI) shows that there has been a 130 percent increase, which is more than double, the net loss of doctors that went to work abroad from 1991-1996 with most of them heading to the south of the border. The loss of each single physician represents a loss of a major Canadian investment in a highly educated, skilled practitioner who can contribute to the overall health and well being of many Canadians in their respective communities, and whose future research could have proved to serve the country as a whole. But with much higher salaries and larger funding for research out of this country, it is not the doctors’ fault as the migration is not confined to only physicians, doctors represent only one quarter of health workers who made the move to the states in 1996, with nurses making up the majority (Soroka).