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This page will provide you with general information about health insurance. Note that if you are looking for travel health insurance, you should check the travel section as well - many providers offer both general and travel health products. If you are doing research before buying health insurance, take advantage of our "Get health quotes" detail which will help you get prices. Wondering where to buy? Check the list of property & casualty and life and health brokers, agents, or companies listed in the following directories as most of them can provide you with standard health insurance, and either provide or point you to sources of special coverages and products.
While the health-care system in Canada ensures that virtually everyone living here has access to medical services in any part of the country, it doesn't cover everything. That's where private, or extended, health insurance comes in – it is meant to pick up where your government plan ends. Private health insurance is not the same as emergency health – or travel medical – insurance that you may consider purchasing when you travel outside Canada. Rather, it covers the day-to-day surgeries and treatments that can add up to big bills.
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- Time to Quit? Join Other Quitters at imaquitter.ca during National Non-Smoking Week: CAMH
- 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
- 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
- Spending on health care to reach $5,170 per Canadian in 2008: CIHI
- Manulife invests $500,000 in Nova Scotia mental health projects
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CIHI: Most snowmobile-related injuries occur in February
- 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?
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