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Aug

Canada: our health care system is sick.

Posted by Despina Karras  Published in Health Care

Topping the agenda at this week’s annual Canadian Medical Association is curing the ails of their medical system.
“Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country – who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting – recognize that changes must be [...]

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Tags: Canadian health care system, health care debate, socialized health care

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8

Aug

French Health Care: When no one wants to foot the bill

Posted by Despina Karras  Published in Health Care

Despite liberals’ efforts to convince us all that France’s universal health care system is sheer perfection, France is actually in the process of taking steps that will make it a sort of hybrid between our system and theirs. What is stopping them is their citizens’ aversion to any changes that require them to take any [...]

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Tags: France, health care reform, socialized health care

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12

May

Health care companies to cut costs: what’s in it for them?

Posted by Despina Karras  Published in Health Care

“An unrivaled set of abstractions and posturing,” is how a Boston University Professor of Health Policy described the announcement that health companies (insurers, providers and drug companies) have promised to enact $2 trillion in cost-cutting measures over the next 10 years.
This ceremonial commitment came on the heels of Democrat’s revealing their willingness to use reconciliation [...]

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Tags: health care reform, socialized health care

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