Health Care in Canada

Health care is a constitutional responsibility of provincial governments primarily in Canada (except the main federal government responsible for services provided to indigenous peoples are covered by treaties, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Armed Forces, and members of Parliament). Therefore, each province administers its own health insurance. The federal government affects the health insurance because of their fiscal powers - it is cash transfers and tax point in the province to help cover the costs of universal health insurance schemes. In Canada Health Act, the federal government mandates and provides a requirement that all people have free access to what is called "a medical point of view of services" is defined primarily as the care delivered by physicians or hospitals, and nursing component of long-term residential care . If the provinces allow doctors and clinics charge patients a medical point of view of services, the federal government reduces its payments to the provinces by the number of illegal fees. Taken together, the province of public health insurance system in Canada, which are often referred to as Medicare. This social insurance are not taxed, funded from general government revenues, while in British Columbia and Ontario collect the required premium to the flat rates for individuals and families to obtain additional revenues - in effect, the income tax. Private health insurance is permitted, but in six provinces only for services, public health plans do not cover, for example, semi-private rooms or in hospitals and plans for prescription drugs. Four provinces allow insurance services are also provided by the Canada Health Act, but in practice there is no market for it. All Canadians are free to use the services of private insurance for elective medical services such as laser vision correction surgery, plastic surgery, and other non-essential medical procedures. About 65% of Canadians have some form of supplementary private health insurance, many of them receive it through their employers. [20] in the private sector services not paid by the government accounted for nearly 30 percent of total health expenditure [21].