Health Care Delivery System in Canada.

Health Care Delivery System in Canada.

The Canadian health care delivery system is based on a national health insurance program that is operated by each provincial governmnet.

Specialists are concentrated in centres; where as primary health care providers are evenly distributed through out Canadian provinces.

Canada has a federally sponsored, publicly funded Medicare system. Canada's system is known as a single payer system, where basic services are provided by private doctors, with the entire fee paid for by the government at the same rate. These rates are negotiated between the provincial governments and the province's medical associations, usually on an annual basis. A physician cannot charge a fee for a service that is higher than the negotiated rate - even to patients who are not covered by the publicly funded system - unless he opts out of billing the publicly funded system altogether.