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Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.

Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.

Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients

- Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system

- March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]

Why Ontario keeps sending patients south

- Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?

- Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]

Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report

- October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care

- David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]

Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered

- May 28, 2007 [CBC News]

BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long for Hip and Knee Surgery Costs $10,000 Per Patient-Maximum Wait Times Should Be No Longer Than 6 Months

- June 28, 2006 [CCN Matthews]

Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+

- March 17, 2006 [CTV.ca]

Canada inches toward private medicine

- Rebecca Cook Dube, August 8, 2005 [CS Monitor]

Doctor defends private cancer clinic

- Gillian Livingston, July 15, 2005 [Canadian Press]

Dogma trumps truth in health-care issues

- D’Arcy Jenish, July 7, 2005 [Ontario Business News]

Why Canadians Purchase Private Health Insurance

- Walter Williams, June 20, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

Doctor welcomes health ruling

- June 9, 2005 [CBC Montreal]

Patients shouldn't wait more than 8 weeks for cardiac defibrillator: experts

- May 24, 2005 [Canadian Press]

Grads fail to slow doctor shortage

- Jennifer O'Brien, May 21, 2005 [London Free Press]

Free Canadian health care comes at cost

- April 10, 2005 [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]

Canada's drug tab reaches $22 billion, report suggests

- Sheryl Ubelacker, CP, April 6, 2005 [London Free Press]

Canadian health care is free and first-class -- if you can wait

- Beth Duff-Brown, March 19, 2005 [The Associated Press]

Pediatricians, parents warn of shortage of community-based care for children

- Colin Perkel, March 4, 2005 [The Canadian Press]

Access to specialists difficult: study

- February 16, 2005 [CBC Calgary]

Doctor shortages, frustrations vary from region to region, survey shows

- February 15, 2005 [Canada.com]

Montreal leads the country in offering private health care

- Aaron Derfel, February 12, 2005 [Montreal Gazette]

Canada falling short on medical imaging

- February 9, 2005 [Macleans.ca]

Creative incentives required to retain older doctors

- Dr. Charles Shaver, January 20, 2005 [Toronto Star]

MRI gap defies cash fix

- Mark Kennedy, January 14, 2005 [National Post (Canada)]

A boy's plight, a nation's problem

- Lisa Priest, January 13, 2005 [The Globe and Mail]

Where's proof private clinics cost more?

- Tom Brodbeck, December 4, 2004 [The Winnipeg Sun]

Surgery backlog tops 5,500 at kids' hospitals; One-year waits common

- Aaron Derfel, December 3, 2004 [The Gazette (Montreal)]

Hospital wait lists to get worse, Carriere says

- Chris Traber, November 14, 2004 [Yorkregion.com]

Frustrated patients can't handle ER waits

- Jennifer Stewart and Jeffrey Simpson, October 28, 2004 [The Halifax Herald Limited]

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

...it answers, "an ever-increasing demand from the public for greater accessibility and quality of health services." - October 13, 2004 [CTV.ca]

Canadians have higher death risk than Americans after heart attack: study

- Sheryl Ubelacker, September 20, 2004 [Canada.com]

Canadian medical tourists in India

- Jeremy Copeland, September 20, 2004 [CBC News]

Doctor shortage cripples Canada's free health care

- Clifford Krauss, September 18, 2004 [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

Canada's Once-Proud Public Health System in Crisis

- David Ljunggren, September 14, 2004 [Reuters (Ottawa)]

Hospitals to cut, again

- September 5, 2004 [Toronto Star]

Canada's Medical Nightmare

- Robert J. Cihak, M.D., September 1, 2004 [Health Care News]

Canada faces shortage of doctors

- August 19, 2004 [MSNBC]

Canadians losing faith in health system: poll

- August 16, 2004 [CTV.ca]

Ontario hospitals a health risk

- Michael Hurley, August 8, 2004 [Toronto Star]

Need surgery? Here's how long you'll wait

"It's inhuman. The quality of my life is horrible and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it." - Jason Fekete, July 28, 2004 [Calgary Herald]

Docs, nurses fed up

Canadian doctors and nurses are fed up with inter-governmental "bickering" that is dragging