Health insurance in Canada : Everything you need to know



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Health insurance in Canada provides supplemental coverage for what’s excluded from the national healthcare program

Health insurance in Canada : Everything you need to know

Canada boasts one of the world’s most comprehensive healthcare systems, providing free access to emergency care and regular doctor visits to all citizens and permanent residents. However, the country’s universal healthcare system does not cover everything. There are still certain services that Canadians need to pay for out of pocket, prompting many to take out private or personal health insurance.

Insurance Business delves deeper into public healthcare and health insurance in Canada in this article. If you’re working out whether getting private health coverage is necessary or if Medicare already provides sufficient protection, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we will discuss how both types of coverage work, what

Claims about US medical codes for unvaccinated are misleading

Social media posts claim the US government is using codes from doctors to track people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. This is misleading; under federal law, individuals must consent to the release of their medical records — and the codes are part of an international system that makes anonymized health data available for research.

“ICD-10 is our new label so we can be tracked?” asks a February 5, 2023 Instagram post sharing a TikTok video.

The narrator in the clip says: “Any time you go to the doctor — you have a physical, you have your blood drawn — they ask you, ‘Are you vaccinated?’ And if you say no, you become an ICD-10 so you can be tracked.”

The claim has also circulated on Instagram, where a February 6 post shares a video of Fox News host Laura Ingraham in a segment with a chyron that says: