Hopes fade for big fix of Canada&#39;s health system
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The mission is to fix Canada&#39;s much-vaunted, but ailing, health system for a generation, but federal and provincial governments looked hopelessly divided on Friday
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The government proposals for public health reform dominated the headlines all week. But past attempts to address the health of the nation have tried and failed, experts say.
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OTTAWAâPatients&#39; waiting times and runaway health-care costs could both be reduced by forcing hospitals to compete for government health-care funding, says the latest report on Canada&#39;s medicare system.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean (Zhen&#39;) Cretien (KREH-tee-en&#39;) says his former country&#39;s single-payer health care system works well, but isn&#39;t perfect.
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It was almost two years ago that Roy Romanow released his landmark report on the future of medicare. Since then, the study has too often been used as a battering ram by premiers seeking more money from Ottawa.
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WATERLOO  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was playing down expectations today that next month&#39;s first ministers meeting in Ottawa would yield a health-care agreement between Ottawa and the provinces.
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If you don&#39;t have a family doctor you&#39;re not alone. A new national poll says Canada&#39;s doctor shortage is about to get a lot worse with a record number of physicians set to retire in two years and the remainder cutting back the number of hours they work.
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OTTAWA - Premier Gordon Campbell says the federal government&#39;s latest multi-billion offer to increase health-care funding falls far short of what&#39;s needed.
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OTTAWA - Stress from high workloads is costing Canada&#39;s health-care system up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, according to a new federal study.
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Well, that&#39;s settled then, isn&#39;t it? Paul Martin, the magpie of a Prime Minister, has declared the issue of wait times for medical treatments to be his government&#39;s priority. And the Canadian Medical Association this week threw its ...
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An increasingly acrimonious meeting over health care is starting to raise questions about the stability of Canada&#39;s new minority Liberal government, but one minister
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Canada needs to invest $1 billion over the next five years to reverse its serious shortage of doctors and ensure there will be enough health-care providers in future to reduce long waiting lists plaguing hospitals, the Canadian Medical Association says.
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The Martin government is considering a substantial fund to make it easier for patients to receive treatment outside their home province as Ottawa focuses on reducing
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For the Ottawa Sun. If you believe in the future of our hospitals, not only in Ottawa but across the province, then I hope you will read today&#39;s column and arrive at the same conclusion
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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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More Americans are looking to Canada for ideas on fixing the health-care crisis.
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If Canada&#39;s first ministers do not come up with profound, concrete changes to medicare at their highly anticipated September meeting, the fallout will be cataclysmic for both the health system and the nation itself, former Saskatchewan ...