Health deal gives NB $425M more
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OTTAWA - Canadians were supposed to witness the so-called health-care fix for a generation unfold on live television but Prime Minister Paul Martin and the premiers retreated behind closed doors to settle on a six-year, $18-billion medicare package.
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PATIENTS would pay less for prescription medicine in a surprise move by Labor leader Mark Latham. Labor is also proposing to double the maternity immunisation allowance to $427 as an extra incentive for parents to vaccinate their children.
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Net income rose to $496.7 million and the health insurer raised its full-year forecast as membership increased.
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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, registering the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase and pushing the cost of family coverage under the most common type of plan past $10,000, according to a new survey.
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One of New England's top business leaders says companies should contribute more to employees' health insurance than is required by the state's healthcare revamp law.
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he cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey reported yesterday.
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Canada said on Thursday the multibillion-dollar health-care deal it has negotiated with its provinces will not derail its day-care and urban-renewal initiatives
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The British National Health Service (NHS) has signed a massive software licensing deal with Microsoft. The deal will ultimately save the NHS $625 million in licensing fees, as well as requiring that Microsoft
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OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and the country&#39;s provincial and territorial leaders signed a $30 billion deal Wednesday to improve the nation&#39;s health care system.
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The Canadian government is considering offering provinces more than C$9 billion ($6.9 billion) for health care over five years as long as they follow rules when spending the money, the
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The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance rose 11.2 percent in 2004 - the fourth straight year of double-digit growth, according to a survey released Thursday.
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Australians over the age of 65 were expected Sunday to benefit from the government&#39;s latest health initiative. Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday in Sydney an increase
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Sickness absence in the NI Civil Service is on the increase, and has cost  Â£25.6m this year.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. agreed to pay up to $530 million to Medarex Inc. as part of a deal to co-develop Medarex&#39;s experimental melanoma treatment.
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National health spending soared above $2 trillion for the first time in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade.
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California's insurance commissioner approved a $16.4 billion merger creating the nation's largest health insurance company yesterday, after saying he had wrung hundreds of millions of dollars out of the companies involved that would be used to improve healthcare in the state.
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Employer health care costs are expected to rise 11.3% in 2005, according to an analysis by consultant Hewitt Associates, the Detroit Free Press reports (Norris, Detroit Free Press, 10/12).