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    Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's...
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  • Look up Medicare or medicare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Medicare may refer to several publicly funded health insurance programs: Medicare (Australia)...
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    Socially democratic programs were also instituted, such as Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, and Canada Student Loans; though, provincial governments, particularly...
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    Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with...
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    Several individuals have been described as the father of medicare in Canada. Medicare is the country's publicly funded health system. Tommy Douglas championed...
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  • Medicare is the publicly funded universal health care insurance scheme in Australia, along with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) operated by the...
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    The Medicare for All Act (abbreviated M4A), also known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act or United States National Health Care Act, is...
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  • include the United Kingdom's National Health Service, Australia's Medicare, Canada's Medicare, and Taiwan's National Health Insurance. The term was coined...
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    and student loans. They promised to implement a national Medicare program by 1967, and the Canada Pension Plan system of public pensions. The party also...
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  • Canadian Doctors for Medicare is a Canadian non-profit advocacy organization that was founded in Toronto in 2006. The organization argues against the...
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    provincial areas. For instance, in order to receive healthcare funding under Medicare, provinces must agree to meet certain federal mandates, such as universal...
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    "medicare", and sets out the primary objective of Canadian healthcare policy. As set out in the Act, the main objective of healthcare policy in Canada...
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    Healthcare in Canada is delivered through the provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare. It is guided...
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    private for-profit cancer clinic to be created since the inception of Medicare. The clinic operated after the hospital's regular working hours and was...
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    York General Hospital (NYGH) is a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Primarily serving the North York district, as well as southern York Region...
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  • Sault Area Hospital (category Public–private partnership projects in Canada)
    Geography Location Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada Organization Care system Public Medicare (Canada) Type District General Services Emergency department...
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    The Ottawa Hospital (category Hospital networks in Canada)
    Hospital (French: L'Hôpital d'Ottawa) is a hospital system in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The system was formed through the merger of the former Grace Hospital,...
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  • Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mount Sinai is part of Sinai Health. Sinai Health was formed through the voluntary...
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    Canada Coordinates 43°27′03.5″N 079°45′49.5″W / 43.450972°N 79.763750°W / 43.450972; -79.763750 Organization Care system Public Medicare (Canada)...
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    to 1916. Upon completion, the site was taken over by the Government of Canada to serve as a military convalescent hospital for soldiers wounded in the...
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    formerly Scarborough Grace Hospital, is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located in the Agincourt neighbourhood along Birchmount Road, the hospital...
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  • Whitehorse General Hospital (category Canadian hospital stubs)
    Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Coordinates 60°43′09″N 135°02′37″E / 60.7193°N 135.0436°E / 60.7193; 135.0436 Organization Care system Medicare (Canada) Funding Government...
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    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (category Mental health organizations in Canada)
    locations throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. It reports being the largest research facility in Canada for mental health and addictions. The hospital...
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    (QCH) is a 355-bed hospital located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that delivers acute care and is west Ottawa's only full-service hospital...
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    is a hospital in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital was the first in Canada to erect a pandemic response unit. This...
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    Ontario, Canada operated by Hamilton Health Sciences. It is located adjacent to the Juravinski Cancer Centre. The hospital was ranked 2nd in Canada for research...
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    Humber River Hospital is a major acute care hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the northwest part of Toronto, near Highway 401 and Keele Street...
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    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and...
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    Columbia, Canada Coordinates 49°15′29″N 123°05′44″W / 49.25794°N 123.09557°W / 49.25794; -123.09557 Organization Care system Medicare (Canada) Type Community...
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    Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam) (category Psychiatric hospitals in Canada)
    Riverview Hospital was a Canadian mental health facility located in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It operated under the governance of BC Mental Health &...
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