"Although health care cost savings are lower than the ... More information: Doug Coyle, Implementing a smoke-free generation policy for Canada: estimates of the long-term impacts, Health Promotion ...

More than 15,000 people died in Canada in one year because they couldn’t access care in the country’s collapsing socialized health-care system. From the Toronto Sun story: Close to 15,500 ...

Each year, more than 250,000 newcomers make Canada their home, drawn by its reputation for a strong economy, excellent education system and its free and universal health care system. "Overall we ...

Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care ... But that "free" coverage has a significant cost. Medicaid beneficiaries must wait longer for care than those with private ...

Private insurance for anything deemed "medically necessary" is outlawed in Canada. Instead, the government foots the bill. Ostensibly, health care is "free" at the point of access for patients.

Coyle said the amount of health-care costs saved according to ... Pipe said the research bolstered the case for a smoke-free generation policy in Canada. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute ...

Cancel any time. A new report says Canada’s health-care system has fallen behind international peers in access to care, equity and wait times, outperforming only the United States. A new report ...

The new Canada Health Act Services Policy will require that medically necessary services provided by nonphysicians are publicly funded.

In a letter to his provincial and territorial counterparts, federal Health Minister Mark Holland declared that “physician-equivalent services” provided by nurse practitioners (NPs ...

While overall there is a global shortage of anesthesiologists in keeping with an overall health-care worker shortage, the editorial also said anesthesia human resources in Canada have been handled ...

P.E.I. Nurses' Union welcomes the upcoming change to the Canada Health Act, which will allow nurse practitioners to contribute more to the health-care system on the Island. Starting April 1 next ...