Premiers&#39; plan for national pharmacare program on meeting agenda ...
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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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TORONTO (CP) - A national pharmacare program funded by the federal  government would indirectly result in shorter waiting lists, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.
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Canada&#39;s premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week&#39;s high-stakes health-care summit.
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OTTAWAâPrime Minister Paul Martin kicked off the first ministers&#39; meeting yesterday by announcing $700 million to improve aboriginal health.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin and Canada&#39;s first ministers begin round two of health care talks Tuesday, after Monday&#39;s talks were marked by bickering over proposed funding to fix the system.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The premiers went for Sunday dinner at Prime Minister Paul Martin's but his offer of billions more for health care left them confused, frustrated, and hungry for more.
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TORONTO (CP) - Roy Romanow made an impassioned plea Wednesday for Prime Minister Paul Martin and the provincial premiers to come up with a concrete strategy -and not just more rhetoric -on how to maintain the lifeblood of Canada&#39;s health-care system at ...
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The Prime Minister says he is prepared to meet with the Premiers for as long as it takes to work out a new health care deal. As he wrapped up the Liberal cabinet retreat in BC, Paul Martin said when he meets
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin's tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week's high-stakes health-care summit.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are set to present a counter-proposal that asks Prime Minister Paul Martin to shell out over $5 billion a year in new health-care money.
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Political jockeying over health care intensified yesterday as Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stepped up the pressure on the federal government to assume responsibility for a national pharmacare program.
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The Ontario government is adamant it will push ahead with its agenda to improve health care despite a sound rejection of a proposed landmark deal by the province&#39;s doctors.
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Talk about an anticlimax. After months of build-up, with the premiers publicly pressing for a national pharmacare program -- one of those instant, dire necessities only politicians can conjure up -- and Paul
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Nearly all of Canada&#39;s premiers will be meeting today and tomorrow for last-minute talks on health care ahead of a summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The first ministers health summit headed into its final day Wednesday with the premiers and the prime minister still looking for a cure for the ailing patient - medicare.
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On prescription drugs, at least, Ujjal Dosanjh has his priorities dead right. The federal health minister&#39;s most important job right now is to ensure Canada&#39;s supply of pharmaceuticals.
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OTTAWA -- A scheduled three-day first ministers conference next month designed to reform the health system should continue &quot;as long as it takes&quot; to get a deal, Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday, even as one of the key premiers said he will limit