Cette idée est aussi énoncée dans la politique canadienne de la santé comme objectif premier et est formulée comme suit à l'article 3 de la Loi: «de protéger, de favoriser et d'améliorer le bien-être physique et mental des habitants du Canada et de faciliter un accès satisfaisant aux services de santé, sans obstacles d'ordre financier ou autre».
The preamble of the Canada Health Act recognizes that ``Continued access to quality health care without financial or other barriers will be critical to maintaining and improving the health and well-being of Canadians''. This concept is also brought out as the primary objective in Canadian health care policy: ``to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers, as described in section 3 of the act''.