Last week, to great fanfare and much media attention across the country, the Canadian Medical Association Journal announced the publication of a new study trumpeting the great benefits Canada would accrue by going ahead with national government funded pharmaceutical drug coverage.
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Juillet 25, 2014
6:00AM
Professor Colleen Flood’s recent column in Globe Debate (Canada should look to Europe on health care, not the U.S) got the title right – but just about everything else wrong. Canadians would indeed benefit from a look at Europe for lessons on healthcare reform. What they should not do is fall for Ms. Flood’s erroneous jumbling of statistics that muddle reality and results in false conclusions.
Mars 29, 2012
2:00AM
With rumoured spending cuts in the upcoming federal budget, look for the Conservatives to play up one area of spending theyve committed to increasing: health care transfers to the provinces. Last December, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new 10-year plan for health care transfers that will see transfers increase by six per cent for the next five years and thereafter by the rate of economic growth until 2024.
Juin 4, 2011
2:00AM
It has been one month since the federal election, and discussions about health care reformnever prominent during the electionseem to be even further away from the public spotlight. Nonetheless, some are trying to get their remedies noticed. The usual suspects like the Health Council of Canadamade up of councilors appointed by the federal, provincial, and territorial governmentshave put forward their recommendations for improving Canadas health care system.
Avril 19, 2011
2:00AM
Canadas health system is causing a crisis in provincial public finances. The growth in government health spending continues to outpace our public capacity to pay for it. The provinces must shift some costs onto medical consumers, or risk eventual provincial bankruptcy.
Novembre 29, 2010
2:00AM
When it comes to Canadian health care, everyone seems to agree our system has problems and needs to be improved. But the discussion always seems to end there, with any new idea for reform immediately discarded by vote-sensitive politicians and vested special interest groups.
Décembre 10, 2003
2:00AM
On November 17, British Columbias provincial government proposed several new amendments to the Medicare Protection Act. According to the news release, the goal is to protect patients from inadvertent billing errors and charges for insured services. In fact, Bill 92 grossly jeopardizes the already limited rights British Columbian patients and physicians have to get diagnostic and surgical services outside the government monopoly.
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