{"id":2171,"date":"2012-07-02T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:58:09","slug":"everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-canadian-health-care-in-one-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-canadian-health-care-in-one-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you ever wanted to know about Canadian health care in one post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian health care system was built around the principle that all citizens will receive all \u201cmedically necessary and hospital physician services.\u201d To that end, each of Canada\u2019s 10 provinces and three territories finance and run a statewide health insurance program. There is no cost-sharing for the health care services guaranteed under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>While Canadians are guaranteed access to hospital and physician services, it is up to each province to decide whether to cover \u201csupplementary\u201d benefits, like dental care and drug coverage. About two-thirds of Canadians take out private, supplemental insurance policies (or have an employer-sponsored plan) to cover these services.<\/p>\n<p>While Canada is traditionally thought of as a publicly financed system, spending on these supplemental benefits means that\u00a030 percent\u00a0of health spending comes from private sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/07\/01\/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-canadian-health-care-in-one-post\/\">Everything you ever wanted to know about Canadian health care in one post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian health care system was built around the principle that all citizens will receive all \u201cmedically necessary and hospital physician services.\u201d To that end, each of Canada\u2019s 10 provinces and three territories finance and run a statewide health insurance program. There is no cost-sharing for the health care services guaranteed under federal law. While&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[125,148,57,123,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}