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Septembre 27, 2018 3:21PM

The average Canadian family will pay $12,935 for health care this year
Bacchus Barua, Milagros Palacios
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Canadians must wait 41.7 weeks (on average) to receive medically necessary elective orthopaedic surgery.

Étiquettes:
health care, health-care wait times in Canada, costs of health care, patients, hospital care, surgery wait, doctors
Août 31, 2018 1:54PM

Timely health care—there’s an app for that!
Bacchus Barua, Steven Globerman
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Survey says seven in 10 Canadians are ready for virtual doctor appointments.

Étiquettes:
health care, access to health care, health care wait times, surgery wait, patients, doctors, single-payer model, travelling for medical care
Août 16, 2018 9:09AM

Twitter tiff sparks health-care debate free of apt comparisons
Bacchus Barua
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Hospitals in Switzerland compete with one another for patients.

Étiquettes:
health care, universal access health care, hospitals, patients, doctors, co-pays, cost-sharing, access to medical services, surgery, health-care costs
Août 2, 2018 2:41PM

New pricing regulations may restrict access to innovative drugs in Canada
Bacchus Barua, Kristina M.L. Acri, née Lybecker
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Review board’s new reference countries have more limited access to new and innovative drugs.

Étiquettes:
pharmaceuticals, prescription drugs, access to new drugs, pharmaceutical innovation, patients, cancer medicine
Juillet 16, 2018 4:13PM

Changes to Ontario drug program a (very small) step forward
Bacchus Barua
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The original OHIP+ provided limited coverage to a population that largely didn’t need assistance.

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prescription drugs, drug coverage, patients, taxpayers, doug ford, ontario health care
Avril 12, 2018 1:11PM

Cracking down on private clinics means cracking down on patients in need
Bacchus Barua
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Last year in B.C., the average wait time between referral to treatment was 26.6 weeks.

Étiquettes:
health care, universal access health care, access to health care, cost of waiting for care, health care wait times, bc health care, john horgan, adrian dix, MRI, german health care
Avril 6, 2018 9:14AM

Where patients are prisoners to bureaucratic will
Bacchus Barua
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In Switzerland, the health-care system features managed competition among insurance companies and health-care providers.

Étiquettes:
access to health care, cost of health care, effect of wait times on mortality in canada, health care wait times, universal health care, health insurance, for-profit hospitals, doctors, patients, german health care
Mars 1, 2018 1:27PM

Budget 2018 lays groundwork for possible national pharmacare program
Bacchus Barua
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In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.

Étiquettes:
pharmacare, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical costs, prescription drugs, patients, health care, Canada health care system, cancer, universal access health care, federal government budget
Février 27, 2018 10:56AM

Workers will ultimately pay part of B.C.’s new employer health tax
Bacchus Barua, Charles Lammam
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The province will spend nearly $22 billion on health care in 2018/19.

Étiquettes:
health care, health care costs, MSP, government spending, NDP, john horgan, taxes, business taxes, BC taxpayers
Février 7, 2018 5:15AM

Merkel should stand her ground and protect German health care
Bacchus Barua
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Unlike Canadians, Germans do not face long wait times for health care.

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Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Canada health care system, health care, health care wait times, health care spending, german health care, patients, canadian hospitals

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