Canada Health Act
Provincial and Territorial Health Insurance Plans
The following material describes the 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans that make up the Canadian publicly funded health insurance system, demonstrating clearly and consistently the extent to which provincial and territorial plans fulfilled the requirements of the Canada Health Act (CHA) program criteria and conditions in 2004-2005.
Officials in the provincial, territorial and federal governments have worked together to provide and review the information. The information submitted to Health Canada for this report by each provincial and territorial department of health consists of two components:
- a narrative description of the provincial or territorial health care system relating to the five criteria and the first condition (that of providing the Minister of Health with information in relation to insured health services and extended health care services) of the CHA; and
- statistics identifying trends in the provincial and territorial health care systems, which are included at the end of each narrative description.
The first component is used to help with the monitoring and compliance of provincial and territorial health care plans with respect to the requirements of the CHA, while statistics identify current and future trends in the Canadian health care system.
To help prepare their submissions to the report, Health Canada has provided provinces and territories with the document Canada Health Act Annual Report - 2004-2005: A Guide for Updating Submissions. This guide is designed to help provinces and territories meet the reporting requirements of Health Canada and was developed through discussion with provincial and territorial officials. Annual revisions to the guide are based on Health Canada's analysis of health plan descriptions from previous annual reports and its assessment of emerging issues relating to insured health services.
Provincial and Territorial Submissions
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