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Is beer in corner stores bad for our health?
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
One thing that is clear from research is that the greatest impact on alcohol consumption comes from pricing policies. The cheaper alcohol is, the more people consume. Yet we don’t talk about the benefits of high taxes or floor prices. That’s why buck-a-beer policies and rhetoric should concern us much more than where products are sold.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Ontario health minister’s ‘modernization’ plan: cut now, figure out the details later
Friday, May 24th, 2019
They’ll scold the city for being a free-spending bastion of lefties. They’ll complain about the deficit their predecessors ran up. But they will not commit to continuing to fully fund the programs they claim to want to continue and improve… At some point taxes will have to be raised, or programs will have to be cut. Despite what Elliott says, it appears those are the choices. Not good ones. But soon necessary.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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Health units worried about province’s plans to consolidate 35 agencies into 10
Monday, May 20th, 2019
The planned transformation comes as the government lowers its public health spending, requiring municipalities to contribute millions more to their health budgets than anticipated. By 2021-2022, the provincial cut is expected to be $200 million annually… The consolidation will nonetheless mean that health units will have to serve larger geographic regions, which include communities with different needs.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, participation
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How Ontario’s cuts to public health will hurt our patients
Sunday, May 19th, 2019
We are a group of resident physicians – doctors training to be family physicians and specialists – in Ontario… we have been taught the importance of disease prevention as one of the most important tools to keep people well and out of hospital… If your government truly is committed to ending “hallway medicine” and providing the possibility of healthier lives, we urge you to reconsider the proposed significant budget cuts to Public Health.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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The Fallacy of Federal Advantage in Delivering Pharmacare
Friday, May 17th, 2019
… the 2019 federal budget proposed the creation of a new Canadian Drug Agency to conduct health technology assessments, negotiate prices and listing terms… That is, the new agency could substantially lower the national drug budget even if the federal and provincial/territorial governments are not able to agree on a single-payer government plan… Prescription drugs are an increasingly large component of total healthcare costs, and should be integrated with other areas of health spending and policies to control it.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Ontario’s top court rules religious doctors must offer patients an ‘effective referral’ for assisted dying, abortion
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
The Court of Appeal for Ontario is now the highest court in the country to have ruled on the thorny question of how the conscience rights of doctors should be balanced against the rights of patients to access publicly funded health services – a question that became more pressing after the legalization of assisted dying three years ago.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, women
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Alternatives for alternative medicines
Friday, May 10th, 2019
… we propose general guiding regulatory principles for CAM products and practitioners. Our paper also provides a framework for governments to structure the regulation of complementary and alternative medicines and develop appropriate institutions, such as a CAM advisory council, to provide independent advice to governments on appropriate standards… although many question the legitimizing CAMs, their growth indicates that consumer demand for them is here to stay.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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Don’t Make Pharmacare Completely Free
Friday, May 10th, 2019
Adjusting per-prescription charges is a logical way for provinces to respond to evidence of over-use and to fiscal pressures that might otherwise cause them to limit coverage in other ways, and in particular through rationing… Optimally, deductibles should be designed to put an income-dependent ceiling on out-of-pocket expenses depending on the individual’s state of health. These payments are not a bug in social insurance programs; they are a key feature that should be part of any universal pharmacare program.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Getting Connected: Digital Health and Information Sharing under Bill 74
Monday, May 6th, 2019
After the first year of implementation, Ontario Health Team Candidates are expected to meet the following criteria: have a harmonized information management plan in place; increase adoption of relevant digital health tools; and
have plans in place to streamline and integrate point of service systems and use data to support patient care and population health management… The backbone of integration will be the ability to share information.
Tags: Health, mental Health
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Should we cover the health bills of snowbirds and cross-border shoppers?
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Anyone who is foolish enough to travel without first purchasing private health insurance faces the prospect of catastrophic medical bills, with or without this program. The OOC program is also highly inefficient. A lot of time, energy and money is spent making piddling payments: There are about 88,000 claims a year, and the average reimbursement is $127. Put another way, it costs $2.8-million to pay $9-million in claims and those payments cover less than 5 per cent of travellers’ medical bills.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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