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As of April 2005, Health Insurance BC is the new name for administrative operations of the Medical Services Plan (MSP) and PharmaCare, including Fair PharmaCare. On 16 September 2016, Michael de Jong , Minister of Finance for British Columbia announced that the government will spend $500 million on housing affordability , while also canceling ...
HealthLinkBC is a government-funded telehealth service launched in 2001, which provides non-emergency health information to the residents of British Columbia, Canada through combined telephone, internet, mobile app, and print resources. [1] [2] HealthLink BC has two dedicated phone numbers 8-1-1 and 7-1-1 for deaf and hard of hearing callers. [3]
The Ministry of Health is a department of the Government of British Columbia which oversees the provincial healthcare system. It manages services including the Medical Services Plan , HealthLinkBC , and the PharmaCare program.
The Pacific Blue Cross health foundation supports organizations throughout British Columbia that help improve health outcomes. Notable initiatives of Pacific Blue Cross include Text-Blue-Wish [6] in support of the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada and Share the Care which celebrated their 75th anniversary by donating $75,000. [7]
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia.PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British Columbia the First Nations Health Authority is also non-regional and highly dispersed.
Merged with Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company (Lindsay) and Glengarry Mutual Insurance Company to form the Commonwell Mutual. Laurentian Life 1993 Imperial Life Laurier Life Insurance Company 1966 1998 Merged into Imperial Life Liberty Health 2003 Maritime Life: Lobo Mutual Insurance Company 1882 2001
Service Canada is the program operated by Employment and Social Development Canada to serve as a single-point of access for the Government of Canada's largest and most heavily used programs, such as the social insurance number, the Employment Insurance program, the Old Age Security program and the Canada Pension Plan. [1]
As healthcare debate in the United States reached the top of the U.S. domestic policy agenda during the U.S. 2008 presidential race with a combination of "soaring costs" in the healthcare system and an increasing number of Americans without health insurance because of job loss during the recession, the long wait lists of Canada's so-called ...