Private sector delivery : Scope and extent in Canada's health care system

It is hoped that the utility of the study is enhanced • rehabilitation services not hospital based by this approach, thus providing the greatest benefit (including massage therapy, occupational to readers interested in understanding the scope and therapy, physiotherapy, respiratory therapy); extent of private sector involvement in the delivery and of health services in Canada. [...] This value was users of these data to ensure that the private sector almost always different from the proportion of is properly recognized as a significant participant in providers for the same health service who engage in the delivery of health services in Canada. [...] Financing The report begins with a high level overview of the Canadian health care system designed to place the Canadians spent a total of about $112 billion or involvement of the private sector in the delivery of $3,572 per capita on health care in 2002. [...] The Canada Health Transfer Regulation determines the cost sharing formulae and the Delivery transfer of funds from the federal to the While the provinces and territories have a legal provincial/territorial obligation to fund “medically necessary” governments for health care services as defined by the Canada “medically necessary” Health Act there are fewer restrictions placed services stipulated in [...] This blurry line between who is funding the delivery of health services, and who is providing health services, lies as the root of lively discussions about the state of the Canadian health care system that appear with some frequency in the press and casual discussions amongst Canadians.