Editing Medicare (Canada) (section)

==Provincial insurance plans==
Although the ''Canada Health Act'' provides national guidelines for healthcare, the provinces have exclusive jurisdiction over health under the [[Constitution of Canada|constitution]] and are free to ignore these guidelines, although if they ignore the guidelines, the [[Government of Canada|federal government]] may deny federal funding for healthcare. All provinces currently abide by the ''Canada Health Act'' in order to receive this funding; however the [[Alberta]] legislature has considered proposals{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} to ignore the Act to allow them to implement reforms not allowed under the Act.

The federal government has no direct role in the delivery of medicine in the provinces and territories so each province and territory has its own independent public health insurance program. Under the ''Canada Health Act'', each province and territory must provide services to members of plans in other provinces and territories.

===List of provincial programs===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Province
!Name of plan
|-
|[[Alberta]]
|[[Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan]]
|-
|[[British Columbia]]
|[[Medical Services Plan of British Columbia]]
|-
|[[Manitoba]]
|[[Manitoba Health Services Insurance Plan]]
|-
|[[New Brunswick]]
|[[New Brunswick Health Care]]
|-
|[[Newfoundland and Labrador]]
|[[Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Care Plan]]
|-
|[[Northwest Territories]]
|[[NWT Health Care Insurance Plan]]
|-
|[[Nova Scotia]]
|[[Medical Service Insurance]]
|-
|[[Nunavut]]
|[[Nunavut Health Care Plan]]
|-
|[[Ontario]]
|[[Ontario Health Insurance Plan]]
|-
|[[Prince Edward Island]]
|[[Prince Edward Island Hospital and Medical Services Plan]]
|-
|[[Quebec]]
|[[Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec]]
|-
|[[Saskatchewan]]
|[[Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Plan]]
|-
|[[Yukon]]
|[[Yukon Health Care Insurance Plan]]
|}