Pols 403 Self-test Quiz: Final Exam Romanow Report

1. Which of the following summaries would best fit the Romanow Report?

Future Canadian public health care sustainability will not be ensured with better management

Long term and regular increased federal funding to the provinces is required to ensure sustainability

Free market solutions to health care funding problems should be further explored

All of the above

None of the above

2. Romanow’s call for a national Health Council of Canada is an example of:

Reform liberalism

The constitutional division of powers

Executive federalism

Technocracy

Factions

3. Romanow’s suggestions to reduce waiting times and waiting lists do not include:

More effective administration

Schedule guarantees

Prohibiting private clinics from perform medically insured services

More funding

All of the above are suggestions from the Romanow Report when it comes to waiting

4. Which of the following is not a recommendation from the Romanow Report?

A Health Council of Canada

Medical savings accounts

Catastrophic drug funding

Electronic health records

All of the above are recommendations from the Romanow Report

5. Romanow calls for adding a sixth principle, accountability, to the Canada Health Act. To do this,

The federal government would be required to amend the Canada Health Act

The provincial governments would be required to amend the Canada Health Act

Canada’s Constitution would have to be amended

Provincial and territorial governments would have to agree

Seven out of ten provinces representing half of Canada's population would have to approve any such change

6. Romanow wrote that, “The debate [over wait lists] has become clouded by contradictory evidence and conflicting claims.” According to him, this is because:

Canada has a federal system of government

The division of powers equally splits health care into federal and provincial jurisdiction

Wait lists are managed with reference to the practices of other countries

There are too many pluralist demands to government

Care guarantees are not working at all

7. Which of the following is not a recommendation from the Romanow Report?

Integrate prescription drugs into the health care system

Care guarantees

Modernize the Canada Health Act

Add the principle of ‘accountability’ to the Canada Health Act

All of the above are Romanow Report recommendations