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Morneau says Ottawa will need to work with provinces on issues like universal pharmacare
19 January 2020 - Finance Minister Bill Morneau said that the federal government will often need to work together with provinces ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2020
Sharing health care data with digital giants
16 January 2020 - Overcoming obstacles and reaping benefits while protecting patients. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2020
Airing frustrations with pharma, a Republican FTC commissioner just endorsed Medicare negotiation
16 January 2020 - A Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday expressed support for allowing Medicare to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2020
In home care plan to cut hospital costs
13 January 2020 - Patients with mental health problems, chronic disease and undergoing rehabilitation will be increasingly diverted out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
Can we please stop fighting about ‘Medicare for all’?
8 January 2020 - One policy proposal has defined this Democratic race. It’s time to move on. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
Failing mental and dental health resources driving hospital congestion
10 January 2020 - A critical shortage of mental health beds and unaffordable dental services are prompting increasing numbers of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2020
Focus needed not just on drugs but hospital expenses to impact health care costs
8 January 2020 - Much is made of the cost of drugs in the U. S., a topic that is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jan 2020
Hospital overload ‘fuelled by GP rebate’
9 January 2020 - The Medicare rebate for GP consultations is too low, prompting tens of thousands of people each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2020
As Brexit nears, fears of an NHS sell-out resurface
6 January 2020 - In the lead up to December’s general election in Britain one of the main campaign issues ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Democratic states appeal Obamacare ruling to Supreme Court
4 January 2020 - In a move that could put the Obama-era health law squarely in the middle of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Democrats and Republicans promised to lower drug prices. Instead they've gone up again.
5 January 2020 - Drug makers hiked prices on hundreds of medications for 2020, just weeks after the Trump administration ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jan 2020
Three drug pricing policy experiments to watch in 2020
2 January 2020 - Politicians spent the better part of 2019 bickering over the best way to lower drug prices. ...
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
Public hospitals 'going backwards'
11 December 2019 - Australia's top doctors say the country's hospitals are "going backwards" as more patients wait longer for ...
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 ...