The Canada Health Act is a piece of Canadian federal legislation, adopted in 1984, which specifies the conditions and criteria with which the provincial and territorial health insurance programs must conform in order to receive federal transfer payments under the Canada Health Transfer. These criteria require universal coverage for all "medically necessary" hospital and physician services, without co-payments. The CHA deals only with how the system is financed. Because of...
Government link to answer your question:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/nr-cp/2002/2002_care-soinsbk4_e.html
Basically, it guarantees all Canadians free emergency medical care, regardless of your income status.
The link above summaries everything else pretty well.
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R&S is appropriate to this question, contrary to what someone said. It's right there: "Is it based on religious beliefs?" (As well as further down.) Except for digilook, in scanning...