Money talks, Klein walks as health summit opens
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Despite the prime minister&#39;s plea that the first ministers meeting not devolve into an argument over numbers, the first day of his long-awaited health care summit did exactly that.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday that a first ministers conference on medicare merits three days, three weeks or three months of negotiation -- even as Alberta Premier Ralph Klein
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With the first ministers meeting in Ottawa, governments at last seem to be heading down the right track. For the first time in years, the tough questions about the true costs associated with specific health
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The 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific opened in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai yesterday.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is refusing to attend most of the first ministers conference on health, but he still plans to make his demands firmly known.
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The opening hours of GP surgeries will be the focus of talks between doctors and the new health secretary.
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OTTAWAâPremier Dalton McGuinty says the upcoming health summit will likely be the first of many meetings between the federal government and the provinces as they attempt to &quot;move the ball down the field&quot; on improving health care.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.
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After three days of operation, the first ministers performed CPR on a new health care funding deal.Late Wednesday night, the Premiers and Prime Minister Paul Martin reached a compromise agreement to put more money into the health-care system.
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HAVANA -- Poverty, health care, and the Middle East top the agenda for a weeklong summit of the Nonaligned Movement that began yesterday and will culminate with the meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran and Venezuela. Cuba takes over the chairmanship this week from Malaysia, and the communist government's foreign minister opened the event with ...
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President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry are offering distinct plans to help Americans cope with the rising costs of health care.
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Ralph Klein is hopeful that this week&#39;s meeting of the premiers results in a unified consensus on a national pharmacare program, the Alberta Premier&#39;s spokeswoman says.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton   wrapped up his second annual brainstorming summit on Friday   with commitments worth $7.3 billion to combat illness, poverty,   religious and ethnic conflict and climate change.
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A Southern California physicians group has become one of the first and largest health organizations in the nation to make prices for procedures easily available to the public.
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Two fierce rivals will stand together in Washington and agree on a series of goals for achieving universal health coverage, according to people briefed on the matter.
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International researchers launched the first worldwide health research summit Tuesday in a desperate bid to revive research on the so-called &quot;forgotten diseases,&quot; the illnesses of the poor that account for one-half the world&#39;s deaths.
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If one had to pick two pivotal players at the medicare summit Prime Minister Paul Martin will be hosting next week, they would be Manitoba&#39;s Gary Doer and New Brunswick&#39;s Bernard Lord.