Medicare&#39;s politics and the CMA&#39;s poll
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Restrain the presses. In a new poll, the Canadian Medical Association found declining public satisfaction with medicare. Released one month before Prime Minister Paul Martin sits down in Ottawa to talk about the health-care system with the premiers, it ...
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It&#39;s beginning to look a lot like Canada as far as Americans&#39; opinions about health-care reform and their prescription shopping habits.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing
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OTTAWA (CP) - 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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We shouldn&#39;t have been so shocked when the Bush administration sneaked out the news under cover of the Labor Day weekend that the Medicare Part B monthly premium is rising next year by 17.
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With soaring medical costs imperiling Medicare and the federal government&#39;s financial health, Washington needs a straight answer to a key question: Can private companies deliver more medical services for less money than the government-run Medicare program
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It&#39;s time Gray Matters put up or shut up, instead of merely complaining about what passes for the American health care system.
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WASINGTON (CBS.MW) - The outcome of this year&#39;s neck-and-neck presidential campaign continues to be anybody&#39;s guess as major political polls released Friday show very different leanings in the hotly contested race.
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TORONTO -- The federal and Ontario governments acknowledged yesterday that voters want improvements to health care and will not tolerate squabbling between Ottawa and the provinces over who pays for what.
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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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OTTAWA (CP) - The former governor of Canada&#39;s central bank has made an unusual foray into the political fray over health care, questioning proposals for greater competition within the single-payer medicare system.
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This past week&#39;s summit on the future of health care in Ottawa wasn&#39;t so much a gong show, as I predicted in the days leading up to it.
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When it comes down to a choice between good politics and good policy, which usually wins? Let&#39;s put it this way: We don&#39;t call it the political Play of the Week for nothing.
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Health-care providers and pundits are applauding the medicare deal while trying to figure out who will get what. The deal, announced early yesterday, will see $18 billion over six years flowing to the provinces
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If you really want to know what kind of gong show next week&#39;s first ministers&#39; conference on health care is going to be, talk to Premier Gary Doer, who&#39;s sat through more than his share of these political shindigs.
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he Medicare premium increase announced last week - the largest in the program&#39;s history - has ratcheted up campaign accusations on both sides.
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JIM LEHRER: Health care got much attention last night in the debate, and again today in the campaign. Susan Dentzer of our health unit begins our look.