Premiers complain about cash as health care summit set to begin
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OTTAWA - Ottawa&#39;s latest $12 billion offer is not enough to fix Canada&#39;s health care system, some premiers are charging as they prepare for an historic three-day summit with the prime minister.
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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 -- 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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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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Health care is the No. 1 priority of the federal Liberal government, but it&#39;s not its only priority, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said yesterday in a speech in which he put some financial parameters on the first- ministers health-care summit next week.
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Despite the prime minister&#39;s plea that the first ministers meeting not devolve into an argument over numbers, the first day of his long-awaited health care summit did exactly that.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The former governor of Canada&#39;s central bank has made an unusual foray into the political fray over health care, questioning proposals for greater competition within the single-payer medicare system.
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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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TONY EASTLEY: AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson might like to get a flak jacket and a tin helmet as he comes under continued heavy fire from the Labor Party for criticising its Medicare Gold policy for over 75&#39;s.
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TORONTO (CP) - The federal government&#39;s commitment to spend $41 billion on health care was a good deal for the provinces, but it will only help stabilize the system and do little to address inevitable challenges in the future, New Brunswick Premier
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin and Canada&#39;s first ministers begin round two of health care talks Tuesday, after Monday&#39;s talks were marked by bickering over proposed funding to fix the system.
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OTTAWA - Premier Bernard Lord has signed his name to a deal that will pour millions more dollars into New Brunswick&#39;s health care coffers.
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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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WATERLOO -- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was playing down expectations yesterday that next month&#39;s first ministers meeting in Ottawa would yield a health-care agreement between Ottawa and the provinces. McGuinty, chairperson of the group of provincial ...
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TORONTO - Ontario will get an additional $7 billion for health care under the agreement reached, early Thursday morning, between the prime minister and the premiers and territorial leaders.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin and Canada&#39;s first ministers are expected to turn their attention to the problem of reducing waiting lists, following an acrimonious first-day summit meeting over proposed funding to fix Canada&#39;s health care system.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees is preparing for a showdown with the Ontario Government. CUPE was quick to react after Health Minister George Smitherman said Ontario hospitals should look for savings in their janitorial and clerical services.