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Canadians want federal health-care role
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Jan. 16, 2012
The national survey by Ipsos Reid was commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association, which represents the nation’s doctors… – 97 per cent of Canadians think the federal government’s responsibility for the Canada Health Act is important. In return for receiving federal money, provinces must adhere to the principles of medicare as outlined in the Act. Those principles include accessibility to services, universal availability, and portability from province to province…
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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ORNGE air ambulance service now run by Ontario deputy minister
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Jan 11 2012
… top executives at ORNGE, which gets $150 million in taxpayers money a year, had set up a warren of for-profit companies in what they described as an attempt to “leverage” the public assets of a service that was created to fly sick and injured Ontario residents to hospital. Meanwhile… ORNGE was late to some emergency calls and failed to provide proper coverage in certain parts of the province… executives of the for-profit companies were called into boardrooms and told their services would no longer be needed.
Tags: budget, Health, privatization
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The virtue of ‘at-risk’ in hospital executive pay
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Jan. 10, 2012
During this critical time when hospitals are being merged and exceptional change agents are needed to take them to the next level, salary caps would be a mistake. But Ontario is wrong-headed in letting each hospital’s board determine compensation guidelines and standards for executives… A good framework would provide some consistency to compensation… (and a) significant portion of executive pay be dependent on attaining performance indicators
Tags: budget, Health
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How one woman is trying to change native people’s health care experience
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Dec. 25, 2011
Dr. Smylie is a Toronto-based family physician and health researcher of Métis heritage who is looking for new ways of connecting aboriginal individuals with the health-care system to help reduce the high rates of chronic disease… She believes a big obstacle is that the health-care system wasn’t designed specifically with aboriginals in mind. Native Canadians have a distinct culture in which elders pass on vital information about parenting; midwives, rather than hospital-based doctors, help birth children; and age-old traditions play a major role.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Canada needs a more efficient health care system
Monday, December 19th, 2011
The number of doctors – there are nearly 70,000 – and their salaries are both at all-time highs. More Canadians have a family doctor than in years past, proof that progress has been made. But access to them is among the worst in the world… Canadians shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking poor access is the inevitable consequence of a publicly-funded health care system. Patients in the Netherlands and Germany have rapid access to specialists, much like Americans where private care prevails. Our system is simply not efficient.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Canada needs a more-efficient health care system
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011
The number of doctors – there are nearly 70,000 – and their salaries are both at all-time highs. More Canadians have a family doctor than in years past, proof that progress has been made. But access to them is among the worst in the world… Canadians shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking poor access is the inevitable consequence of a publicly-funded health care system. Patients in the Netherlands and Germany have rapid access to specialists, much like Americans where private care prevails. Our system is simply not efficient.
Tags: budget, Health, standard of living
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A Scarborough clinic for those with no health insurance
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Dec 12 2011
Care for the uninsured in the GTA occurs largely under the radar — administered through an uncoordinated mix of community health centres, emergency rooms and free clinics. But an increasing number of front-line health-care workers and advocates are pushing for better access to care for the uninsured, amid concerns the patchwork system in place is not only unethical and costly to the system but is putting the lives of the most marginalized and vulnerable at risk.
Tags: Health, immigration, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario needs to do its health-care homework
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Dec. 06, 2011
… total annual funding to family physicians went up by 32 per cent between 2006-07 and 2009-10, from $2.8-billion to $3.7-billion. And despite the higher costs and the ostensibly improved access, the health ministry was unable to provide any evidence that wait times for physicians have gone down… The path out of a $16-billion deficit, more or less endorsed by all three provincial parties in the recent election, revolves largely around flattening health spending increases…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology
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A vision for high-quality health care
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Nov. 30, 2011
… the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) are spearheading a drive to transform health care for the better when the current health accord expires in 2014. Armed with the results of a new Canada-wide public opinion poll that shows overwhelming support for the key aspects of a set of jointly agreed principles as the basis for a new health accord, the two organizations are calling for a high-quality health care system that is universal, equitable, sustainable and truly centred on the needs of patients.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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‘Blowing up’ the Canada Health Act not the answer to rising costs: economist
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Nov 17, 2011
“Having growth in health-care costs outstrip national income does not necessarily mean the system is unsustainable”… “blowing up” the Canada Health Act in a way that ends or reduces the extent of public coverage for basic medical treatment is not the answer… better integration of the overall system… would include better use of technology for accessing patient records, as well as less reliance on expensive-to-run hospitals for end-of-life care or treatment of such chronic conditions as diabetes.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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