A comparison Between the Health Care in Jordan and Canada

“A comparison between the health care in Jordan and Canada”
Abstract/ Summary
The Canadian health system is a publicly funded universal national health insurance program that is backed by the government. On the other hand, the Jordanian healthcare system financing is dependent on the utilization of public, private programs and designated donors. A cross-country comparison of healthcare captures the health and economic profiles between the two countries. In Canada, the ministers in the different regions oversee the healthcare system but there is coordination at the national level, while the Jordanian system is more fragmented since there are divers players involved in financing. Despite Canada emphasizing on universality there is a challenge because of long waiting lines and pressure contain costs. The healthcare system is meant to improve heath provision and ensure financial protection from escalating health costs and equitable access to healthcare services. As such, this is a comparison between the Canadian and Jordanian healthcare system. To assess the differences the latest publicly available data was used focusing the healthcare system, health indicators health expenditures and pharmaceutical industry outlook in the two countries. The citizens and permanent residents of Canada are automatically eligible for public health insurance, but refugees and temporary residents are considered under special circumstances. There are also restrictions for refugees in Jordan, but their share of the population is bigger. Growth prospects in the pharmaceutical industry have slowed down in Canada with the popularity of cheaper generics, with country mostly associated with the manufacture of branded drugs unlike Jordan. Even though, the government may distort the efficient allocation of health resources better coordination at the national level improves accessibility of health services for both countries, but more research is required to determine the effectiveness of the different approaches to funding healthcare insurance coverage.
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Introduction
The Canadian health system has a universal national health insurance program that is backed by the government. The health insurance system also follows a singular payer system with third parties providing for medical services, while the choice of physicians is unlimited (Ridic, Gleason & Ridic, 2012). To control the costs of medical care physicians are paid through negotiated fees for the service provided, by three are limits to the medical expenditure over time. The main feature of the health system is the national health insurance provides for hospitalization and physicians services. Private insurance for covered services is not allowed, but private insurance is used for uncovered services (Ridic, Gleason & Ridic, 2012).The Jordanian healthcare system integrates the public and private sectors as well as donors, with the public sector being financed through the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Royal Medical Service (RMS), but there are other smaller programs initiated through university-based systems (WHO, 2006). Even though, the MOH is the main financier of health services, the insurance coverage is still not free and there is still a sect...