Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Royal Assent, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Fiscal Sustainability
18 Apr 2015
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The act sets out the primary objective of canadian health care policy: To protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers: Medically necessary hospital, physician, and surgical dental services: reasonable access, provision of insured health services. The cha sets out health insurance program criteria and conditions: 5 principles for provinces to receive full federal cash contribution canada health transfer from federal government to provincial. Its really about money who is responsible for what and who should fund health care. Medicare refers to canadas health insureance program. Services not included under the cha: home care, residential care, dental care outside the hospital, pharmaceutical outside hospital, extended health services physiotherapy, massage therapy etc. Groups of people not covered the cha: first nation ppl living on reserves. Inuit people: canadian forces, royal canadian mounted police, veterans.
