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Patients should not “face charges for medically necessary care when a service would otherwise be covered if provided by a physician,” federal Health Minister Mark Holland recently stated in his letter to provincial and territorial ministers of health on the importance of upholding the Canada Health Act.
Today, many people in Canada still do not have access to needed mental health and substance use health services, with the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, the overdose crisis and the toxic illegal drug supply amplifying the gap between the needs of the population and the capacity of health workers to respond. Targeted federal health transfers are helping but are still falling short.
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