Canadian Health Care System

Background Briefing: The Canadian Health Care System

Health care in Canada has long been a source of national pride. Known as ‘medicare’, the system is publicly financed but privately run, it provides universal coverage and care is free at the point of use. The system is based on five founding principles. Care must be universal, portable, comprehensive, accessible, and publicly administered. But does medicare adhere to these principles? Many thin...

Health Care Utilization by Canadian Women

HEALTH ISSUES: While women are reported to be more frequent users of health services in Canada, differences in women's and men's health care utilization have not been fully explored. To provide an overview on women's healthcare utilization, we selected two key issues that are important for public policy purposes: access to care and patterns of utilization. These issues are examined using primar...

The Canadian and American health-care systems.

Canadian health care slurs dismissed as "rhetoric".

Health care ethics experts in Canadian courts.

Sitting in my office one afternoon, I received a telephone call from a lawyer many miles away. W ould I consider acting as an ethics expert witness in a civil case raising questions about the ethics of a particular physician’s conduct? The question certainly caught me off guard. I had known several individuals who had acted as ethics experts in litigation and had wondered in passing about the n...