The Canada Health Act requires provinces to provide all medically necessary hospital and physician services under public health insurance. It is like a bill of rights for patients. Canadians have the ...

Private health insurance should be better regulated in Canada, say researchers who found the gap between premiums and payouts in claims reached $6.8 billion in 2011. About 60 per cent of Canadians are ...

Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Quebec law that banned private insurance for services covered under Medicare, a landmark decision that could affect the country's universal health-care ...

TORONTO – Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Quebec (search) law that banned private insurance for services covered under Medicare, a landmark decision that could affect the country's ...

OPINION: My mother's home province of Saskatchewan instituted the first single-payer health care plan in North America in ...

Naresh Tinani loves his job as a perfusionist at a hospital in Saskatchewan’s capital. To him, monitoring patient blood levels, heart beat and body temperature during cardiac surgeries and intensive ...

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Travel insurance can cover injuries or illnesses while you’re traveling in Canada, as your domestic health insurance may not travel with you across the border. The best travel insurance for Canada ...