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The Canada Health Act (CHA; French: Loi canadienne sur la santé), [1] adopted in 1984, is the federal legislation in Canada for publicly-funded health insurance, commonly called "medicare", and sets out the primary objective of Canadian healthcare policy.
Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.
Canadian Doctors for Medicare is based in Toronto, Ontario. [1] The organization's first director was Danielle Martin, [2] as of 2023, the executive director is Katie Arnup. [3] In 2014, the governing board had 17 members, all of them physicians. [2] Board members include Jasmine Gite, [4] and Amit Arya. [5]
HCFA was renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 1, 2001. [9] [11] In 2013, a report by the inspector general found that CMS had paid $23 million in benefits to deceased beneficiaries in 2011. [12] In April 2014, CMS released raw claims data from 2012 that gave a look into what types of doctors billed Medicare the most. [13]
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In 2012, the gross average salary for doctors in Canada was CDN$328,000. Out of the gross amount, doctors pay for taxes, rent, staff salaries and equipment. [90] In Canada, less than half of doctors are specialists whereas more than 70% of doctors are specialists in the U.S. [91] Canada has fewer doctors per capita than the United States.