Doctors reject deal from province
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TORONTO -- Doctors across Ontario have voted to reject a proposed four-year fee agreement with the McGuinty government. Broadcast News has learned 60 per cent of the 15,000 doctors who voted by phone rejected the new deal with the province.
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TORONTO -- Health Minister George Smitherman says the province will move ahead with its latest proposal to Ontario&#39;s doctors, even though it doesn&#39;t have their approval.
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Rejecting the national pharmacare plan favoured by the provinces, federal health minister Ujjal Dosanjh says he&#39;s confident a strategy is still in the works.
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Voters in Switzerland reject plans to introduce a single means-tested health insurance scheme.
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HMOs will face a steeper price tag to settle a class action suit by doctors claiming they were shortchanged payment, after a court denied the industry's bid to block the lawsuit, analysts said on Thursday.
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NHL owners and players took turns rejecting each other&#39;s proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement during a 3 1/2-hour meeting at league offices in Toronto yesterday, moving the league closer toward canceling the entire 2004-05 season.
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Doctors leaders have backed down in a dispute with the government over extending GPs opening hours.
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A group of doctors from New Jersey is opposing a plan by Aetna Inc. to drop coverage of a type of anesthesia used during colonoscopies.
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TORONTO - Ontario doctors rejected a salary deal with the province over the weekend. But the government says the deal with the doctors is only one part of its plan to transform health care.
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Health Minister George Smitherman dismissed ``ridiculous&quot; opposition claims today that he has been intimidating hospital administrators across Ontario to remain silent about potential service cuts.
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DALHOUSIE - Residents of Dalhousie are blocking the three main roads into their town to protest the Lord government&#39;s plan to downgrade the town&#39;s only hospital.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government will be making a huge mistake if it gives the provinces more money for health without attaching conditions to ensure it is spent to reform the system, says Roy Romanow.
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Campaigners appeal against a decision they say is restricting doctors from prescribing osteoporosis drugs on the NHS.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government must implement its planned health-care reforms, even if that means "taking action" with doctors who have already rejected a contract offer from the province, the former chairman of a royal commission on health said Sunday.
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Ontario&#39;s embattled health minister yesterday said he&#39;s ready to talk to the province&#39;s doctors about the tentative deal they rejected, but arbitration is out of the question.
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The decision by the doctors to reject their new deal with the province is a major setback for the Liberal government at Queen&#39;s Park.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.