Julia Gillard stands by Medicare Gold
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TONY EASTLEY: Labor&#39;s Health spokeswoman, Julia Gillard, is standing by the costings in Medicare Gold and says contrary to the Government&#39;s claims, the Opposition has submitted its policy to the departments of Treasury and Finance for scrutiny.
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The Australian government has defended its big-spending election promises as opponents and some economists claimed its new commitments would push up the very interest rates it is promising to hold back.
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Retirees face a whopping medical bill in their golden years.
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OTTAWA - Canadians were supposed to witness the so-called health-care fix for a generation unfold on live television but Prime Minister Paul Martin and the premiers retreated behind closed doors to settle on a six-year, $18-billion medicare package.
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She was persona non grata in the early 1990s, when the then-first ladyâs dramatic health-care reform package went down. These days Hillary Clinton is winning raves among health-care-industry groupsâand attracting their campaign dollars.
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With soaring medical costs imperiling Medicare and the federal government&#39;s financial health, Washington needs a straight answer to a key question: Can private companies deliver more medical services for less money than the government-run Medicare program
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Hit with a record-high increase in Medicare premiums, seniors also are being bombarded with competing claims by the presidential candidates over who to blame.
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The federal government has stepped up pressure on Labor to support a boost to the private health insurance rebate, accusing the opposition of being insensitive to older people.
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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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Health Minister George Smitherman was on the hot seat again today, deflecting Opposition accusations that the Liberal government is hiding the true cost of a $6.
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The former Medicare administrator should repay his government salary because of his efforts to keep higher estimates of the cost of a prescription drug plan from Congress last year, congressional investigators said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - There was a moment before the last federal election when medicare reform became more than just a campaign promise for Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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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 -- Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers shooting holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of $58.
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The Labor leader who heads the Scottish government has made the state of his country's health a priority.
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A senior Senate Republican said on  Sunday Congress should adjust the Medicare drug benefit to rein  in costs, even though President Bush has threatened to veto any  weakening of the plan.
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DAVID HARDAKER: To the election campaign, now and does Labor&#39;s Medicare Gold package have the support of the private health care groups or not?