This is the bill that gave us publicly funded health care insurance
Rules for things provinces must do to receive the Canada Health Transfer
- federal funding for healthcare
- largest major federal transfer to provinces/territories Program criteria
- public administration
- insurance plan must be non-profit
- comprehensiveness
- “insured health services” means services hospital, physician and surgical-dental services provided to insured persons
- doesn’t include anything from any other act (eg. workers’ comp)
- basically they just gotta provide all of the services
- “insured health services” means services hospital, physician and surgical-dental services provided to insured persons
- universality
- must entitle 100 per cent of the insured persons of the province
- portability
- within canada, must cover people who leave the province (temporarily)
- in other provinces, unless the provinces have some other agreement
- out of Canada, covers amount that would have been paid by the province
- within canada, must cover people who leave the province (temporarily)
- accessibility
- must provide without impediments, whether direct, indirect, whether charges or otherwise
- must provide reasonable compendation for services rendered by medical practitioners or dentists
- must provide payments to hospitals
- reasonable compensation
- “in respect of any province in which extra-billing is not permitted”, the ‘reasonable’ compensation can be ignored as long as the province provides:
- negotiations for services
- settles disputes relating to compensation (?)
- “in respect of any province in which extra-billing is not permitted”, the ‘reasonable’ compensation can be ignored as long as the province provides:
Elective insured health services
- meaning services besides ones that must be without delay (eg. emergency)
- basically if a patient doesn’t want to do a surgery, the province isn’t “failing to provide service”