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• 2009
• Number of physicians in Canada up 8% over five years: CIHI
• Health care spending in Canada to exceed $180 billion this year: CIHI
• Sun Life employees take healthy living to a new level
• Don't Be Afraid to Get a Second Opinion: DMC Solutions
• HealthQuotes.ca announces the launch of a new Visitors to Canada Site
• Helping Canadians understand life and health insurance: CLHIA
• Improvements in prevention and cardiac care mean fewer heart attacks and fewer deaths: CIHI
• Health care – a global concern: Part 1 - Sun Life Financial
• Almost three quarters of Canadians do not have a plan to cover the costs of care for aging parents: RBC Insurance Poll
• Spending on drugs growing at a faster rate than other major health-spending categories: CIHI
• 85% of Canadians Say Their Eating Habits Need Some Improvement: Ipsos Reid Poll
• FIT-Ing In? Most Canadians Say They Have A Healthy Lifestyle - RBC Insurance Poll Finds
• Hospitalization rates in Canada continue to decline: CIHI
• HealthQuotes.ca announces the launch of new, online individual health plan quoting engine
• Almost Three-Quarters (70%) of Online Canadians Have Visited a Healthcare Website in the Past Year: Ipsos Reid
• 2008
• Spending on health care to reach $5,170 per Canadian in 2008: CIHI
• Manulife invests $500,000 in Nova Scotia mental health projects
• Many Canadians do not know that they can get Canadian health insurance after leaving their employer: TFG Global - Healthcover.ca
• Don't Chance It: Canadians Not Prepared For Illness or Serious Injury - RBC Insurance Poll
• New CIHI study shows Canada below OECD median for rates of scanners, despite increase over four years
• Wait time priority procedures continue to increase: CIHI
• Wide variation in potentially preventable hospitalizations for chronic conditions across Canada: CIHI
• Canadian workers punch in even when sick and exhausted: Desjardins Survey
• Children make more than one million visits a year to Ontario emergency departments: CIHI
• CIHI Special study shows post-surgical complications most likely causes of hospitalization
• Transplantation boosts survival rates for young organ failure patients: CIHI
• CIHI : More information on wait times reported by provinces
• Hospital stays for injuries among children and youth decrease over five years: CIHI
• Hospitalizations in Canada down 15% in 12 years: CIHI
• The Cost of Waiting: Eight In Ten (78%) Canadians Believe Healthcare Wait Times 'Cost Canada Money': Ipsos Reid
• 2007
• New guide to health human resources in Canada: CIHI
• Health care spending to reach $160 billion this year: CIHI
• Manulife Financial introduces long term care insurance with unique design and benefits for Canadians and their partners
• Large variations in how long admitted patients wait in emergency rooms for hospital beds: CIHI
• Canadians not checking in for check-ups: RBC Insurance
• HealthQuotes.ca Inc. Announces the Addition of the Ontario Blue Cross Tangible Product
• Health Care in Canada 2007-A new direction for a familiar health information resource: CIHI
• Will Personal Savings Cover Individual Long-Term Health Care Expenses, asks Ipsos Reid Poll for CMA
• Two Thirds of Canadians (66%) 'Concerned' With the Safety of their Food, Ipsos Reid Finds
• Five top tips to help kids deal with back to school stress from The Psychology Foundation and Desjardins
• Number of low birth weight babies rising in Canada, reports CIHI
• Ontario Government Launches New Strategy To Support Living Donors
• Canadians (62%) Believe Hiring More Healthcare Professionals, Establishing Wait Time Standards And Guarantees, And Expansion Of Medicare Services A 'Good Plan': Ipsos Reid Poll for CMA
• 23 children visit an Ontario ER daily due to playground injuries: CIHI Report
• Seniors who wait longer for hip fracture surgery tend to have worse health outcomes: CIHI Report
• CIHI: Prescribed drug spending expected to surpass $21 billion in 2006
• CIHI: Pedestrian injury hospitalizations down 31% in 10 years
• Desjardins Study: Survey shows "workaholic" label is losing its luster as Canadians seek more time with family
• Nine out of ten patients report improvements after inpatient rehabilitation stay: CIHI
• Government home care spending reaches $3.4 billion in 2003–2004: CIHI
• The Co-operators injects $30,000 into London's newest research centre
• Patients Want More Online Info From Doctors: eMarketer
• Consumers See Electronic Health Records as Important Factor when Choosing a Physician and Are Willing to Pay for the Service, Accenture Research Finds
• CIHI Release: Significant 10-year increase in the number of surgeries performed in Canadian hospitals
• Health care spending to reach $148 billion this year: CIHI
• Outliving our Assets! Could this happen to you? by Tim Simpson, Desjardins Financial Security
• 2006
• People should invest in their number one asset before anything else! – Consider Critical Illness Insurance
• CIHI report shows health gaps between neighbourhoods in Canada's cities
• CIHI: Falls from ladders send 23 people a day to Ontario emergency departments
• Statistics Canada Study: Trends in weight change among Canadian adults: 1996/1997 to 2004/2005
• Only 27% Of Canadians Are Worried About Getting Sick From The Flu: Ipsos-Reid for Hoffman La Roche
• CIHI: Differences in health for rural and urban Canadians
• Hospitalizations due to traumatic head injuries down 35% over a decade: CIHI

• About Guaranteed Issue Health Insurance: from HealthQuotes.ca

• USA Employee Benefits in Private Industry, 2006: Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey
• Report Card Shows Canadians Are Slightly More Positive About The Health Care System: Ipsos-Reid Survey for CMA
• Women account for increasing proportion of HIV/AIDS-related hospitalizations: CIHI
• Canadians And Physicians Agree Benchmarks For Wait Times Are Part Of Health Care System Solution: Ipsos Reid Surveys
• Snowbird report card reveals most provinces breaching the Canada Health Act
• CIHI: Few Canadians hospitalized with a spinal cord injury go back to work shortly after rehabilitation
• Statscan General Social Survey: Time use patterns of older Canadians
• Ontario Government Improves Newborn Screening
• Health Care in Canada 2006: a seventh annual report: CIHI
• Desjardins Health Survey: Concerns over Money Squeeze the Zest Out of Life for Canadian Workers
• Canadian Views on Health Care Scenarios: Ipsos-Reid
• Life and health insurance industry responds to Quebec consultation on healthcare
• Drug spending reaches almost $25 billion in 2005: CIHI
• High-Tech Mirror from Accenture Offers Look into the Future
• IBM study shows Canadians using Web more for self-diagnosis
• CIHI offers a first look into continuing care in Canadian hospitals and nursing homes
• Internet Vies with Pharmacists as U.S. Consumers' Second-Most-Trusted Source for Medication Information, Accenture Survey Finds
• CIHI Report: Canadians begin waiting for surgery before getting on the "wait list"
• CIHI Report: MRI scanners in Canada used more intensively than those in the United States and England
• CIHI: Most snowmobile-related injuries occur in February
• Life and health insurers commend Quebec for launching dialogue on health care
• Wellpoint Health Services to offer WorldCare's second opinion e-consultation services for serious illness
• Ontario Government Celebrates Opening of New Cataract Surgery Clinic
• HealthQuotes.ca announces the launch of its Health and Travel Insurance Blog
• 2005
• Inpatient hospitalizations in Canada increase slightly after many years of decline: CIHI
• Health care spending to reach $142 billion this year: CIHI
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR): Finding New and Better Ways to Fight Cancer
• Ontario Becomes National Leader in Newborn Screening
• CIHI: Public health programs and prevention account for, on average, only 3% of health spending, says OECD
• CIHI Report: Canadian Youth With Positive Community and Family Ties Report Better Health
• Wide Variation in Public/Private Funding of Health Care Services: CIHI Report
• PetCare insurance programs now available for Allstate customers in Canada
• CIHI - Packed Lunches and More Physical Education Linked to Lower Childhood Overweight and Obesity
• Sun Life Financial helps Canadians protect savings from long term care costs
• Government Takes Action to Protect the Health of Ontarians
• Government of Ontario Improves Quality of Life for Long-Term Care Residents
• Obese Are Three Times as Likely to Need a Hip or Knee Replacement: CIHI
• HealthQuotes.ca announces the addition of TIC 'visitors to Canada' travel insurance
• Ontario Government Increases Access to Home Care and Community Support Services
• Canada's Health Care System: A Report Card: Ipsos Reid Survey for CMA
• CIHI Releases data from OECD Comparing Canadian Smoking and Other Health Related Statistics to Other Countries
• Half Of Canadians Do Not Have A Financial Plan To Deal With Critical Illness: Ipsos-Reid (Sun Life Financial)
• Clarica advisors offer Canadians access to 50,000 Best Doctors
• For Healthcare Plan Members, Personal Responsibility Is On The Rise: Ipsos-Reid Survey
• 2004
• Canadians say they'll use Retirement Funds to get by after Disability or Major Illness, says RBC Insurance Survey
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care launches anti-smoking campaign for youth
• Managing without Money: Canadians Not Prepared to Handle the Effects of Disability or Illness, RBC Insurance Study Shows
• Little payoff with credit insurance
• 2003
• What is Critical Illness? by Ivon T. Hughes
• Canada Life launches the Dual Solution Program - Disability and Critical Illness
• Sun Life Financial to continue Clarica organ and tissue donations program
• Press release: Canada Life enhances LifeAdvance critical illness insurance product
• 2002
• Maritime Life offers new insurance choices for individuals leaving their group benefit plan
• Tiny Nunavut Shows the Way on Universal Health Care: Report from Canadian Snowbird Association
• Manulife Nursing Care Income Plan offers to help Canadian families cover costs for long-term and nursing home care
• Press release: HomeCare Plus
• Health Insurance Basics and FAQs
• Who needs private health insurance – and why?
• Who can apply for health insurance
• Long Term Care Insurance and some Canadian Facts
• Critical illness insurance – what's it all about?
• A new twist on critical illness insurance: access to round-the-world medical expertise