It’s time to stop treating the Canada Health Act as a symbol and start treating it as what it is: A tool that needs updating.

On Friday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland released a long-awaited Canada Health Act interpretation letter and announced a new Canada Health Act Services Policy. The policy, he said ...

Singh also said an NDP government would modernize the Canada Health Act to "crack down" on the loophole that allows corporations to bill Canadians for virtual health care. He also said he would ...

Conservative Surrey-Cloverdale MLA Elenore Sturko says the changes do not deal with underlying addiction issues ...

Geraldine Mason, a 36-year-old from God's Lake First Nation, spent a month in jail after she was detained for tuberculosis treatment under the Public Health Act. "Folks should not be put in jail ...

A national group of doctors says the practice of patients being charged membership fees or bundled payments to gain access to primary care covered by universal health care needs to end.

Under the Canada Health Act, each provincial health care system must ensure the quality and accessibility of medical services, including using wait-lists, triage systems, and resource allocation to ...