Ontario outplayed the pharmacies in game of hardball
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Jun. 08, 2010
… this was a remarkable example of issues management… As [Health Minister Deb Matthews] struggles to bring health spending growth down to a more sustainable level, most of her other fights will require more nuance; it won’t be possible to demonize doctors the way she did pharmacists, and the challenges surrounding their profession are much more complex. But at the least, she’s positioned herself as an immoveable force once she decides on something.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical
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Ontario’s battle with pharmacies just a skirmish in light of what’s to come
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Apr. 19, 2010
The rather generous contract that the Ontario Medical Association signed with the province in 2008, which gave doctors a 12.25-per-cent increase over four years, expires in 2012. But negotiations, or at least posturing, will heat up well before the October, 2011, provincial election… But the Liberals’ aims seem to involve more than straightforward compensation issues.
For one thing, they want to shift some of doctors’ more basic responsibilities to less well-paid nurses, nurse practitioners and pharmacists – changes to which the OMA is resistant.
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The hidden health-care hurdle at the heart of Duncan’s budget
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Mar. 25, 2010
…it’s on flattening that cost curve – and keeping it flat well beyond 2012-13 – that Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals have mostly pinned their hopes for fiscal sustainability…
Year-to-year deficit figures, like most projections, will constantly be amended. But if the flattening of the health curve doesn’t take, Mr. Duncan’s eight-year plan to get back to balance will collapse.
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