Patients in Ontario expose illegal user fees for cataract surgeries in private clinics, urging government action to uphold ...

The Canada Health Act, passed in 1984, enshrined publicly funded, physician-delivered, hospital-based care as the foundation ...

Ontario Health Coalition made complaints on behalf of 50 patients who say they experienced extra-billing when getting surgeries at private clinics. Updated June 17, 2025 at 6:10 p.m. June 17, 2025 ...

Health Canada isn't quarrelling with Danielle Smith's announcement that most Albertans will have to pay out of pocket for COVID-19 shots.

TORONTO, June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition was joined by patients from across Ontario in a press conference today as they announced that they have filed formal ...

Under the Canada Health Act, patients are supposed to be protected against user charges and extra-billing for medically needed surgeries, diagnostic tests and physician services. Selling queue jumping ...

OTTAWA — Health Canada isn’t quarrelling with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement that most Albertans will soon have to pay out of pocket for COVID-19 shots. Nicholas Janveau, a spokesperson ...

The Coalition was involved in the public campaigns and hearings that led to the creation of the Canada Health Act which requires that medically needed surgeries, diagnostic tests and physician ...

The Coalition was involved in the public campaigns and hearings that led to the creation of the Canada Health Act which requires that medically needed surgeries, diagnostic tests and physician ...

The Canada Health Act, meant to promote equity, prohibits flexibility. It’s a lowest-common-denominator model: rigid, bureaucratic and unresponsive to patient needs.

Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation ...