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Friday, April 19th, 2013
The federal government is the fifth-largest health-care provider in the country, delivering services to more than a million people, including aboriginals living on reserves, members of the Canadian Forces and federal prison inmates… only the federal government, by attaching strings to transfer payments, can secure pan-Canadian standards and thus ensure that provinces aren’t pitted against each other… information-sharing, cooperation, and national standards are key to successful health care – is more important than ever.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, standard of living
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Apr 17 2013
The federal role is to facilitate national approaches to health system issues and promote the pan-Canadian adoption of best practices and innovation. This is the glue that holds medicare together and keeps it responsive to the evolving needs of the Canadian people. Provinces and territories cannot perform this role. The vacuum in federal leadership will fragment the health care system into 14 separate systems operating independently from each other. This fragmentation undermines the core principles of the Canada Health Act, especially comprehensive coverage and portability between provinces and territories.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Jan. 16, 2013
Now, for the first time, Canadian companies have a standardized tool to help them tackle the issue by creating workplaces that promote mental health, reduce stress and support employees dealing with mental illness… This voluntary standard… free and available by download — has guidelines to help companies identify potential hazards to mental health and where they can improve policies and practices.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, mental Health
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
Oct. 19 2012
More patients chose – with the help of their GPs – to go to better hospitals… Hospitals in areas where patients had more choice had greater improvements in clinical quality (measured by lower death rates after admission) and greater reductions in lengths of stay than hospitals in less competitive areas… better management is associated with better outcomes in NHS hospitals and that management tends to be better when hospitals compete with each other.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, standard of living
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
Oct. 19 2012
First… addressing the contentious issue of what exactly would be covered. The solution they chose recognizes that as practices and technologies change, so does the best way of meeting a population’s health needs… Second… health benefits obtained through employment are not taxed as income. At just the federal level, Canada’s Department of Finance calculates the value of this subsidy to be more than $3-billion… The third… is delivery system reform.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Oct 9, 2012
Prescription drugs accounted for only 9.0% of total government spending on health in 2010, down from 9.6% in 2005. Excluding prescription drugs, all other health spending categories are growing faster than both GDP and total available provincial revenues, while accounting for 91% of all government spending on health.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Sept. 27, 2012
… there are more than 30 generic drugs where the total savings per drug under universal coverage would be more than $1 million in Ontario alone. Universal public coverage of every one of the top 100 generics would still save $87 million in public funds if we got the best international prices. It would also benefit everyone by saving employers and individuals $158 million off their prescription drug bill.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
September 26, 2012
… doctors, nurses, pharmacists and parents are reporting that they believe attention deficit drugs are causing major health problems in patients, many as young as 6 and 7 years old… Health Canada, which collects these adverse reaction reports, does not alert the public to the magnitude of these side effects… It has allowed the industry to largely police itself.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, rights, youth
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Sep. 28 2012
Ontario could save an additional $250-million a year if it changed the way it buys generic drugs, and nationally, that figure could hit $1-billion… [by] switching to a tendering system under which generic manufacturers would bid to offer the best price to the drug plans that provide prescription medications to seniors and social assistance recipients.
Tags: budget, Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Sunday, August 26th, 2012
14 August 2012
More than 1 in 4 lower income Canadians have delayed or stopped buying prescription drugs and have skipped meals because they were short of money… the gap appears to be growing… Yet, despite all the evidence about these “social determinants” of health, governments have failed to fund accordingly… The link between poverty and ill health is well established. By not addressing the root economic and social causes of ill health we’re just adding to health care bills down the line.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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