Canada’s health care system is financed and administered by the public sector and service delivery is provided by the private (nonprofit) sector. The system provides total access and coverage to care, comprehensive hospital services, medical services for hospitalized patients and outpatient care from the medical standpoint.
The system is based on five principles included in the Health Law: a) universality, b) scope; c) access; d) transfer facility; and e) public administration. An important characteristic of most health care in Canada is that it is financed by the public sector. The function of the federal government in health care includes the establishment and administration of the principles or national standards for the health care system and cooperation in the financing of provincial health care services through fiscal transfers.
HEALTH SYSTEM PROFILES 
Canada’s health care system is financed and administered by the public sector and service delivery is provided by the private (nonprofit) sector. The system provides total access and coverage to care, comprehensive hospital services, medical services for hospitalized patients and outpatient care from the medical standpoint. 