Premiers&#39; plan for national pharmacare program on meeting agenda ...
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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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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 -- 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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Canada&#39;s premiers issued a challenge yesterday to Prime Minister Paul Martin to say what he meant when he promised a national pharmacare program during the June election campaign.
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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (CP) - The country'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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When the federal government says it can&#39;t afford a national pharmacare program -- the one recently proposed by the provinces -- what it&#39;s really saying is that the provinces can&#39;t afford what they already have.
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OTTAWA - A scheduled three-day first ministers conference next month designed to reform the health system should continue &quot;as long as it takes&quot; to get a deal, Prime Minister Paul Martin said today, even as one of the key premiers said he&#39;ll limit his
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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OTTAWA (CP) - The first ministers health summit headed into its final day Wednesday with the premiers and the prime minister still looking for a cure for the ailing patient - medicare.
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Canada&#39;s premiers are facing cracks in their united front for a new federal pharmacare program as they prepare for a crucial health-care summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin later this month.
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Nearly all of Canada&#39;s premiers will be meeting today and tomorrow for last-minute talks on health care ahead of a summit with Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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QUEBEC CITY - The provincial government is expected to announce its latest plan to fight C. difficile infections in hospitals Tuesday.
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OTTAWA -- Premier Gary Doer choked yesterday. After weeks of tough talk about how he planned to hold Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s feet to the fire on an election promise to set up a national pharmacare program, Doer went limp.
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On prescription drugs, at least, Ujjal Dosanjh has his priorities dead right. The federal health minister&#39;s most important job right now is to ensure Canada&#39;s supply of pharmaceuticals.
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It wasn&#39;t pretty, but it worked, sort of. The Prime Minister and premiers made a deal. They had to, since &quot;let&#39;s make a deal&quot; was the agenda for the meeting and the PM had said no one could leave until a deal was reached.
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The government is to launch what it says is the country's biggest public consultation on tackling drugs.
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TORONTO (CP) - In his first public address as federal health minister, Ujjal Dosanjh carefully toed the government line on Monday, saying Ottawa is prepared to invest more money in medicare to reduce waiting times, but not by sponsoring a national pharmacare program demanded by the provinces.