Private health care funding and delivery under the Canada Health Act : Prestation et le financement des soins de santé privés sous le régime de la Loi canadienne sur la santé

The first section defines the concepts of public and private sectors in health care and distinguishes between the funding and delivery of health services. [...] The second section briefly reviews the conditions of the Canada Health Act and explains how the Act applies to the current public-private mix of funding and delivery of Canada’s health care system. [...] C. The Public-Private Mix in the Funding and Delivery of Health Care Further complicating the issue is the fact that both the public and the private sectors are involved in both the funding and the delivery of health care. [...] Of particular interest, one of the grounds put forward in support of the application was that the Minister did not meet the reporting obligations placed on her by the Canada Health Act by “failing to document the erosion of the public health care system through the processes of privatization, or identify the impacts of this transformation on accessibility, universality, and other criteria of the C [...] The Court dismissed the application on the basis that, though these are important concerns, “they are of an inherently political nature and should be addressed in a political forum rather than in the courts.”(18) The lack of information on the involvement of the private sector in Canada’s health care system constitutes a serious impediment to Health Canada’s reporting of provincial compliance with