Canada Agrees to Increase Spending on Its Health Care
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Prime Minister Paul Martin gained a major victory for his flagging government early Thursday by reaching an agreement with provincial and territorial leaders that would
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Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care.
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A detailed breakdown of NHS spending shows money is reaching key health priority, the government says.
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TORONTO (CP) - The recent $41-billion health-care deal with the federal government will help solve some of today&#39;s problems, but does little to address inevitable challenges in the future, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord said Thursday.
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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 - Some Liberals are complaining that last week&#39;s federal-provincial health agreement may have been a bit too generous. Last week, Prime Minister Paul Martin and the first ministers signed a $41-billion 10-year agreement on health.
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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.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers grew eloquent as they pitched a federally funded pharmacare plan at the natural health summit Tuesday, and Prime Minister Paul Martin responded by agreeing to establish a federal-provincial working group on the issue.
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A Canadian health official said Monday that Canada can provide 2 million doses of flu vaccine to remedy US&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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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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KELOWNA - Prime Minister Paul Martin says he&#39;s willing to make concessions to forge a lasting health-care deal with the premiers, including individual deals with the provinces and the possibility of more equalization payments.
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President Bush is not giving up on his call to overhaul the tax code for those who buy health insurance. The president focused his attention again on the topic after a recent government report projected that health care spending would double by the year 2016. Analysts say current tax policy is contributing to the increase in spending through incentives that favor more comprehensive and expensive health benefits.
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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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Health Minister George Smitherman has announced the province will spend 107 million dollars in federal money to shorten long wait times for five critical medical procedures.
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Managed care provider inks first international agreement.
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Every year, without fail, spending for services covered by private health insurance increases. Sometimes health care spending grows slowly, as it did in the mid-1990s during the managed-care boom.
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Americans could buy and carry home prescription drugs from Canada under an agreement reached Thursday between House and Senate Republicans.