Paul Martin&#39;s health-care gamble pays off - for now
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OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin gambled his political future on a health-care deal with the provinces and that gamble appears to have paid off - at least for now.
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There are two ways to judge the recent health agreement reached among the federal government, the provinces and the territories. One is on substance: A fair analysis suggests the funding agreement will improve
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Despite exploding costs, most Americans got sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, says one of the most sweeping studies ever of health-care value.
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The modest spending increase that Congress approved for a popular children's health insurance program will maintain coverage for enrolees, but others may be out of luck
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The nation&#39;s pharmacists are reaping windfall profits at the expense of Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin looked into the television cameras Monday afternoon and invoked the pride of Canadians in their universal medical insurance system.
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With soaring insurance costs squeezing workers and employers, votersâ choices this November may well be swayed by an issue that has great personal significance to Americans and their pocketbooks: health care.
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Managed-care service provider Wellcare Health Plans is showing robust returns.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The premiers went for Sunday dinner at Prime Minister Paul Martin's but his offer of billions more for health care left them confused, frustrated, and hungry for more.
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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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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 yesterday, even as one of the key premiers said he will limit
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and, in many cases, downright disastrous. But in the managed health-care industry, deal-making has become a necessity for growth. An
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Health-care providers and pundits are applauding the medicare deal while trying to figure out who will get what. The deal, announced early yesterday, will see $18 billion over six years flowing to the provinces
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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No longer a nation's shame, veteran care is acing competitors - and showing that maybe national health care isn't such a bad idea after all
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San Francisco is gambling that it can provide universal and sensibly managed care to the uninsured for about the amount being spent on their treatment now.
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After three days of operation, the first ministers performed CPR on a new health care funding deal.Late Wednesday night, the Premiers and Prime Minister Paul Martin reached a compromise agreement to put more money into the health-care system.