Canada Values Health

To fund or fundraise? 2009-03-17 08:33:13

To fund or fundraise?

Should the cost of funding hospitals be the sole responsibility of government, or should hospital boards be required to fundraise?



Your responses
Funding hospitals
beeber
Posted: 2009-07-14 15:15:03

Hospital bugets should be based on a fee per customer basis so they compete. I want overall govt. insurance but competition at the delivery level.  There is far to much govt.type overhead in hospitalss and not enough people at front end. Some competitive pressures would fix that. Look at Navcanada model when it was Govt. it had 1500 more adimin satff than it does now, why because Govt.operations by law need to feed Govt admin. and contracting systems. Maybe some hospital could even be non union and that would imporve competition as well. Regards
Both.
rainyrose
Posted: 2009-05-28 15:25:35

Both are good but we have to remember a good and comprehensive health care system can only be run by democratic principles under an elected government. No corporation or charity can run such a system. Costs are simply mind boggling. So much so that Bill Gates one of the fattest charity donor in modern times said in one of his interviews that charity is good but at the end it is the responsibility of government. Why government because when you get into account the very fact that medicine through the advent of  modern technology has become enormously expensive and if our people want to and wish to even improve on that, it is inevitable that it will get even more expensive in coming decades as more drugs and techniques are discovered and developed. In such an environment only the government has the financial and political muscle to put things in order. Much like ministry of defence, no body in his/her sane mind would suggest that national defence be privatized so why to priviatize ministry of health (or rather :ministry of "war against disease")?
Neither
PatrickLouch
Posted: 2009-04-23 08:48:18

Funding is inefficient. Fundraising is way more inefficient. Remember MADD? 10% of raised dollars went to the cause.

The key is increasing productivity. We don't need to increase the inputs, only the outputs.
FUNDRAISING/CHARITY
Nelson Bragg
Posted: 2009-04-06 18:45:29

We fundraise because the Government does not have a big enough budget to satisfy every requirement.

Hospitals, Schools and other organizations fundriase to offset the deficiency in  funds.  Fundraising and charity go hand in hand and will always exist.  It is almost essential to fundraise in order to be independent of government bodies.  One can then prioritize and purchase what is within their own means/needs.
Fundraising
Judy
Posted: 2009-04-01 22:54:11

I believe most hospitals are already doing fundraising either by hospital foundations or by individuals. 

I think fundraising is a good step in the right direction and in Edmonton I've seen both corporate and individuals participate in the fundraising.

I am a little concerned about how some of the funding raised is used for the "high profile" diseases/equipment while some little/unknown diseases appear to not receive funding.

Judy