Social Programs and Health Care
Government services are designed to reduce economic inequalities and promote the well-being of citizens.
What are social programs?
A tax is applied to the sale of goods and services.
What is the Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
The financial gain obtained when revenue exceeds expenses.
What is profit?
An agreement where an individual pays premiums in exchange for coverage of health services.
What is health insurance?
A tax levied on the sale of goods and services, often added at the point of purchase.
What is sales tax?
A system where health services are funded by taxes and provided to all residents at no direct cost.
What is public health care?
A tax based on an individual's earnings.
What is income tax?
A market where goods or services are traded illegally.
What is the black market?
The principle ensuring that health care services are available to all residents without financial or other barriers.
What is accessibility?
The federal tax applied to most goods and services in Canada.
What is the Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
Health services that individuals pay for out-of-pocket or through private insurance.
What is private health care?
The middle value in a set of data, often used to describe income distribution.
What is median?
Economic activities that are not reported to the government and therefore not taxed.
What is the underground economy?
The principle that health care coverage should be maintained when a person moves or travels within Canada.
What is portability?
A tax system where the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.
What is a progressive tax system?
The federal law that sets out the primary objective of Canadian health care policy.
What is the Canada Health Act?
The total economic activity subject to taxation by a government.
What is the tax base?
A policy framework outlining how taxes are collected and utilized by the government.
What is a taxation model?
The principle that health care insurance plans must cover all medically necessary services.
What is comprehensiveness?
The deliberate concealment of income or assets to avoid tax liability.
What is tax evasion?
The five principles outlined in the Canada Health Act.
What are publicly administered, comprehensive, universal, portable, and accessible?
The act of illegally avoiding paying taxes owed.
What is tax evasion?
A formal set of principal goals supported by a political party or candidate.
What is a political platform?
The principle that health care insurance plans must be operated on a non-profit basis by a public authority.
What is public administration?
The range of economic activities and income that are not reported to the government and escape taxation.
What is the underground economy?