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Health insurance in Canada : Everything you need to know
Health insurance in Canada provides supplemental coverage for what’s excluded from the national healthcare program
Canada boasts one of the world’s most comprehensive healthcare systems, providing free access to emergency care and regular doctor visits to all citizens and permanent residents. However, the country’s universal healthcare system does not cover everything. There are still certain services that Canadians need to pay for out of pocket, prompting many to take out private or personal health insurance.…
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Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous
On March 31, 2023 the Ford government in Ontario ended the expanded health-care funding it put in place when the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.
This funding allowed everyone in Ontario to access essential health care. For the hundreds of thousands of people living in the province without health insurance, this meant access to necessary surgeries, emergency care and labor and delivery services without thousands of dollars in hospital and physician bills.
As a midwife who has worked in Toronto for over 20 years, largely with uninsured populations, and an associate professor who has focused my research and activism…
Seven Symptoms of Biased Health Care – The Baltimore Times Online Newspaper
Minority health care needs a check-up. Health disparities can and do kill people. Directly or in a way so subtle it is nearly impossible to quantify, unequal care creates health disparities for 47.2 million African Americans. Experiencing even a single instance of biased care signals the quality and effectiveness of the treatment has been compromised.
The consequences of unequal treatment can be chronic or acute, triggering long- or short-term illness. A patient given biased care may grow sicker, never fully recover, or die. Eliminating health disparities is an urgent public health imperative that cannot be ignored without great cost to…
BC ends mask mandate in health-care facilities and proof of vaccination for long-term care visitors
British Columbia is ending its universal mask mandate in health-care settings, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Thursday.
Masks will still be required in certain higher-risk areas and for patients with COVID-19 symptoms who are seeking health care, Henry said from Victoria.
The vaccine mandate for health-care workers remains in effect.
“We’re at a point now where we can change some of the restrictions in health-care settings,” said Henry from Victoria. “Masking remains a very important tool in the health-care setting, and health-care workers will still wear masks based on their risk assessments.
Visitors to long-term care and assisted…
White House to expand Medicaid, ACA coverage to ‘Dreamers’
The federal government will provide government health insurance to eligible undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children under a new initiative by President Joe Biden’s administration announced Thursday.
The plan will allow people eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to use Medicaid, a state-federal program designed for low-income and disabled Americans and get Healthcare.gov marketplace coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
Better known as DACA, the decade-old initiative allows people who were brought into the country illegally as children, often called “dreamers,” to avoid deportation. About 580,000 people are eligible for DACA, according to the Department…
BC lifts health-care mask rules as province emerges from pandemic
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Henry says the lifting of mask requirements does not mean such restrictions won’t return in the fall, as experts are still studying the seasonality of COVID.
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Published April 06, 2023 • Last updated 6 days ago • 3 minute read
BC Provincial Health OfficerDr. Bonnie Henry steps away from the podium after speaking during a news conference in Vancouver, BC, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Henry announced BC is lifting pandemic restrictions like mandatory mask-wearing in health-care settings and visitor restrictions and proof of vaccination in care homes. Photo by DARRYL…
Supreme Court dismisses BC doctor’s appeal in challenge over access to private health care
Canada’s highest court will not hear an appeal from a Vancouver-based physician who has been challenging the health-care system over access to private care.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision Thursday ends Dr. Brian Day’s 14-year legal battle to allow patients access to private care when the public system isn’t able to offer timely care.
Day, owner of the Cambie Surgery Center in Vancouver, claimed that prolonged wait times for medical procedures violated two Charter rights, including the right to life, liberty and security of the person.
“In a way, it’s a very sad day for Canadians,” Day told CBC…
Former Trump advisor Roger Stone faces health insurance woes, pleads for viewers to buy a MyPillow to support him
Former Trump advisor and political consultant Roger Stone is back in the news again. He was convicted in 2019 on seven felony counts for obstructing an official proceeding, witness tampering, and making false statements as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but his sentence was commuted by then-President Donald Trump. Stone’s notoriety has also been fueled by his cartoonish wardrobe and his self-proclaimed status as a dirty political trickter.
Now Stone is living his best life as a host of a Lindell TV web program…