Dosanjh attacks premiers&#39; plan for pharmacare
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OTTAWAâPolitical deadlock is looming over the coming first ministers&#39; health summit, with federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stepping up his public criticism of the premiers&#39; proposal for a national pharmacare program.
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Opponents of importing prescription drugs from Canada are introducing a new argument to the debate with studies that say it would wipe out thousands of jobs in states like Massachusetts that depend on pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
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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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That&#39;s according to Canada&#39;s health minister. Speaking at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday, Ujjal Dosanjh says Canada can&#39;t be the &quot;drug store of the United States.
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(CP) - Ottawa would never agree to the kind of national pharmacare program proposed by the premiers because it would cost too much and makes no sense, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Tuesday.
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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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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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OTTAWA - &quot;It&#39;s show, and we don&#39;t have the dough,&quot; Premier Pat Binns said as he headed into the first day of a summit on health care in Ottawa.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The country&#39;s premiers arrived for a key meeting Wednesday unsure on whether to try to force Ottawa to set up a national pharmacare program, but firmly convinced that more federal money for health is essential.
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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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OTTAWA (CP) - The country&#39;s premiers talked cordially with Paul Martin in front of the TV cameras at the first ministers meeting Tuesday, but behind the scenes they were preparing to attack.
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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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HAMILTON, Ont. (CP) - Ontario&#39;s top priority is reducing health care wait times and pharmacare is just one means to that end, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Saturday as he backed away from the provinces&#39; demand for a national drug plan.
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Canada&#39;s health minister says this country cannot &quot;be the drug store of the United States.&quot;. Ujjal Dosanjh&#39;s warning comes as several states are pushing to buy low-cost prescription drugs north of the border.
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Roy Romanow called on Prime Minister Paul Martin and the premiers to stop fighting and stalling and come up with a concrete plan to fix health care in Canada soon.
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OTTAWA: A kiss-and-tell book from a former cabinet member accuses Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin of trying to undermine the country&#39;s cherished health care system, dealing him another blow as he struggles to keep his minority government afloat.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers and territorial leaders released a health funding counter-proposal Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s offer of $24.