, compared to 100 in Ontario and 109 for Canada as a whole. But roughly 15 percent of Quebec patients report not having a regular …

Canada. Instead, Canadian provinces allocate limited public subsidies for prescriptions drugs, leaving the majority of costs …

, two things make Canada’s public-private mix unique. On the one hand, there is rather limited public coverage for items … Commentary, we argue that a major contributing factor to Canada’s unbalanced public-private healthcare mix are the unique … politicians and bureaucrats to manage the public system more efficiently. This Commentary also examines the Canada Health Act …

’s ability to pay. Hospitals are also the most costly form of care, to the tune of over $58 billion per year across Canada … weaknesses of alternate methods for funding hospital-based care in Canada. It examines both the funding models currently in use … incentives for Canadian hospitals. The dismal performance of Canada relative to other OECD countries on measures of access …

waiting lists, and one reason why many recently graduated specialists in Canada are unemployed or underemployed, is a lack of …

. The Canada Health Act (CHA) uses the term "medically necessary" to define medical procedures and treatments to be paid for … by the publicly-funded medicare system. In Canada’s health-care system, the term has come to refer almost exclusively to … many ways the federally-legislated Canada Health Act has been culturally enshrined as a consecrated icon of national …