U.S. insurers eye Canadian market

Private health care interests completely through North America could get a boost from a novel Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Chaoulli which struck down Quebec's ban upon private insurers.

beholders on both sides of the border say they're still digesting the ruling and what it means for the possibility of expanded private care in the political division The Canadian government recieved an 12-month stay upon the Supreme Court's decision. Meanwhile, similar cases are wending their way [i]or[/i] part of to the other the courts in other provinces.

For Canadians, the Quebec case has stirred debate above the government's ability to provide adequate health care and the ne for a two-tiered combination of parts to form a whole On the U.S. side of the border, the biggest questions are business ones: Will the ruling pave the way for a parallel private combination of parts to form a whole to sprout alongside the country's public system? And would similar a market appeal to U insurers?