Some Canadians would prefer to have a two-tier system where there is a public healthcare system that operates in parallel to a private healthcare system. Currently Canada does not really have that. Canada technically does have 'private' hospitals and practices, but they are only private in the...
You do not have health insurance. Let me repeat that. You do not have health insurance. (Unless you are over 65, in which case you do have health insurance. I’ll come back to that later.) The point of insurance is to protect you against unlikely but damaging events. You are generall...
Use of annual physical examinations by aging Chinese canadians. J Aging Health. 2005;17(5):573–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264305279778. Article PubMed Google Scholar Gao Y, Babazono A, Nishi T, Maeda T, Lkhagva D. Could investment in preventive health care services reduce health ...
As a percentage of the gross national product, expenditures for health care in the United States are considerably larger than in Canada, even though one in seven Americans is uninsured whereas all Canadians have comprehensive health insurance. Among the sectors of health care, the difference in ...
In this episode,Niall Patersonis joined by Sky'shealth correspondent Ashish Joshi, and hears from Canadians about MAID. Niall also talks to Dr Ellen Wiebe, a doctor who has assisted in more than 400 deaths. If you want to learn more abou...
Life insurance ensures your spouse, children, or even parents wouldn’t have to deal with your debt on top of grieving your death. The primary source of debt for most Canadians is usually their mortgage. But it’s not uncommon to have balances owing on lines of credit, credi...
Tours:When planning our trips, we always check bothViatorandGetYourGuideto at least see what’s out there in the destination that we’re going to. They often have different offerings and prices so check both. Travel Insurance:for you. This isn’t something you want to travel without. ...
(banks, credit cards, insurance (car, renters, life, health, LTD), phone/internet carriers, etc). To change companies requires updating my address EVERYWHERE plus filling out another one of those postal service forms allowing some other company to open my mail and have that all notarized with...
I think this myth might have been a bigger deal ten years ago, as most Canadians who I know aren’t exactly thrilled with the current state of their province’s healthcare system. Talk to people who have lived not only in “great healthcare countries” like Singapore and France – but ...
Healthcare must be paid for out of pocket or through a health insurance plan in the U.S., but only Canadians who need these types of non-covered care must dip into their cash flows or carry supplemental insurance policies to pay for them through their provinces. All Americans contribute to...