Private Health Insurance

In Canada, some politicians and other powerful interests aggressively supported the expansion of private health insurance (AMP) to fund health care, under the guise of increased consumer choice, reduce costs for taxpayers and reduce wait times in health care. But the expansion of the ISP has particular implications for women who make greater use of health services than men, and most health care providers paid and unpaid.

The cost of health care is provided by public or private than women because women as a group are less likely to have the financial means to pay for the GPA and are less likely than men to PHI through their professional work. Marginalized women on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, economic class, ability, geographic location, sex and health status are less likely to have PHI. Although some women can afford PHI, your insurance does not always cover the important areas of women's health such as obstetrics and mammography, and women with preexisting medical conditions, women who experience domestic violence and / or women with a family history of health concerns should not be covered.

In addition, there is evidence that the expansion of the ISP will weaken the public health system. When sufficient resources, this system has benefited greatly from the health workers of women, while the introduction of measures to reduce costs in private institutions that have undermined the quality of working conditions. The presence of a universal public health system in Canada has meant that women can apply for basic health care for themselves and their families without having to worry about financial costs, and provides health services to formal reduce the demands on the unpaid work of women in the home.

Women and Reform Health Care RPS studies the implications for women as patients, employees and unpaid caregivers, indicating that the expansion of PHI will greatly increase gender and other social inequalities.