Klein slights summit on medicare&#39;s future
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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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Medicare said yesterday it intends to pay for counseling for some of the nation&#39;s 4 million older smokers. Medicare beneficiaries who smoke and have smoking
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Government and health organization leaders on Monday urged Medicare beneficiaries to take advantage of new preventive benefits, saying the emphasis on prevention will save lives and billions of dollars in health care costs.
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As some lawmakers clamor for letting  Medicare directly negotiate drug prices, Medicare's chief said  on Wednesday that the health program for the elderly could save  more money by letting the private sector set prices.
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An end-of-the year push in Congress to stave off a 10 percent cut in the fees Medicare pays doctors has revived political interest in another thorny issue: whether physicians should be able to own the hospitals they send their patients to.
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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Maryland leaders raised hopes yesterday for a special session of the General Assembly next month that would focus on curbing insurance rate increases for doctors, but acknowledged that key details
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A major obstacle to the success of the new Medicare law has emerged in recent weeks: private insurers have told the Bush administration that they will not expand their role
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein called it a stroke of brilliance and his provincial counterparts thought it a great idea - a national pharmacare program something like the country&#39;s medicare program.
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It was almost two years ago that Roy Romanow released his landmark report on the future of medicare. Since then, the study has too often been used as a battering ram by premiers seeking more money from Ottawa.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday urged policy-makers to consider reducing future Social Security and Medicare benefits, saying the nation probably has promised more to upcoming retirees than the economy realistically can deliver.
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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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Be aware of the Medicare drug plan's gaps.
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OTTAWA - Tempers flared at the national health summit on Tuesday over Ottawa&#39;s offer of short-term funding to address long waiting times for some medical procedures - a problem that some of the premiers tracked back to Paul Martin&#39;s term as finance
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It has been a summer of dire warning about eroding health care, leading doomfully toward a health summit in September. This is not new.
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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 $58.
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The nation&#39;s governors on Wednesday urged President Bush not to shift additional Medicaid costs to the states in his effort to reduce the federal deficit.