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Court rules Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional
18 December 2019 - The decision doesn’t decide the fate of the health law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
9 December 2019 - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Innovative Medicines Canada bans members from paying doctors fees for IV infusions
11 December 2019 - Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to pay fees to Canadian doctors for overseeing intravenous ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Health insurers call for federal crackdown on public hospital 'fraud'
11 December 2019 - Health funds are calling on federal health minister Greg Hunt to use the government's new data-matching ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
National pharmacare must come, even if some provincial governments are against it
10 December 2019 - Naysaying premiers were not elected because they opposed national pharmacare in the last round of provincial elections, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pharmacare with no new medicines
10 December 2019 - Meeting with pricing officials shows that government's true goal is to slash prices so low that no ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Americans are still pretty happy with their private health insurance
9 December 2019 - Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren may not like private health insurance, but many Americans do. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Complaints about private health insurance rule changes jump
9 December 2019 - Complaints about private health insurance rule changes doubled in the September quarter, coinciding with "upheaval" in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Health funds call for urgent reform after government caps price hikes
9 December 2019 - Health funds strong-armed by the government into rising their membership fees by the lowest annual rate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Medibank warns of health insurance crisis
9 December 2019 - One of the nation’s biggest health insurers has appealed for governments and healthcare providers to work ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Insurer NIB wants access to members’ genetic information
6 December 2019 - Health insurer NIB wants to use genetic information and My Health Record data to calculate the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Government announces lowest health insurance premium increase in 19 years
7 December 2019 - The federal government has announced the lowest increase in private health insurance premiums in two decades, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
B.C. wants federal health funding lift before national pharmacare program
3 December 2019 - B.C. wants more money from Ottawa for health care before a national pharmacare program is created, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
Pharmacy benefits manager Abarca inks discount deal for Amgen's Enbrel
4 December 2019 - Abarca, a small Puerto Rico-based pharmacy benefits manager, said on Tuesday Amgen had agreed to give ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
Doctors call for shake-up of private health insurance rules
4 December 2019 - Doctors are calling for a boost to the government rebate for health insurance to make it ...