The Canada Health Act is Canada's federal health insurance legislation and defines the national principles that govern the Canadian health insurance system, ...

Known to Canadians as “medicare,” the system provides access to universal, comprehensive coverage for medically necessary hospital and physician services. These ...

10 In order to satisfy the criterion respecting universality, the health care insurance plan of a province must entitle one hundred per cent of the insured ...

These principles are universality, portability, public administration, comprehensiveness and accessibility. Join the Canadian Health Coalition's Anne Lagacé ...

... principles set out under the Canada Health Act. Each provincial and territorial health insurance plan covers medically necessary hospital and doctors ...

Establishing the principle of universal, single-payer healthcare, the Act's basic requirement is universality: to qualify for federal funding, provinces and ... Conditions and criteria · Criteria · History · Background

10 In order to satisfy the criterion respecting universality, the health care insurance plan of a province must entitle one hundred per cent of the insured ...

Universality means that provincial health insurance programs must insure Canadians for all medically neces- sary hospital and physician care. The condition ...

The Canada Health Act ( CHA ) sets out criteria and conditions that provincial and territorial health insurance plans have to meet in order to receive the full ...