cutting health care for asylum-seekers makes no sense - Globe and Mail


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cutting health care for asylum-seekers makes no sense
Globe and Mail
To suggest that a mandatory checkup looking for tuberculosis and intestinal worms is superior to daily access to medicare is beyond the pale. This is, at best, dishonest rhetoric. It is true that not all Canadians have universal public health coverage ...

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Canadians are making no cents; Good-bye to the penny - The Detroit News

Canadians are making no cents; Good-bye to the penny
The Detroit News
People criticize Canada these days because the Maple leaf nation wants to mine tar sands for oil, which would add a heaping pile of emissions to the whole global warming threat. Now, tar sands aren't as bad as the intestinal microbes of dinosaurs, ...

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Health 411: Seniors from Canada have options for joining Medicare - Los Angeles Times

Health 411: Seniors from Canada have options for joining Medicare
Los Angeles Times
Money woes need not send seniors back to Canada for health coverage. There are ways to get affordable coverage through Medicare, experts say. (Brian van der Brug/LA Times / April 20, 2012) By Lisa Zamosky, Special to the Los Angeles Times My wife and I ...

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Kelly McParland: After refusing support for oilsands, McGuinty seeks Alberta's ... - National Post


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Ontario's premier, Dalton McGuinty, has apparently concluded that it is in the interests of all Canadians to put the squeeze on doctors' pay, and written to the other premiers advocating a united front. It's probably not entirely a coincidence that Mr.
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Extendicare offloads operation of 21 nursing homes in Kentucky to Texas firm - CanadianBusiness.com

Extendicare offloads operation of 21 nursing homes in Kentucky to Texas firm
CanadianBusiness.com
By The Canadian Press | May 14, 2012 MARKHAM, Ont. - Extendicare Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:EXE.UN) says a Texas company is taking over the operation of all 21 of its skilled nursing centres in Kentucky, resulting in the trust's exit from that ...

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Walkom: Why not put all Ontario doctors on salary? - Toronto Star

Walkom: Why not put all Ontario doctors on salary?
Toronto Star
Originally, the pioneers of Canadian medicare assumed that doctors would become salaried employees of government. That's what happened in Britain when its National Health Service was established after World War II. In Saskatchewan, the storied ...

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Cancer pill's cost sends her to India - The Union Leader

Cancer pill's cost sends her to India
The Union Leader
But Farrington doesn't have a Medicare drug plan. She says she has “never been a pill popper,” and Revlimid is the only medication she takes. So with her children's help, she found a Canadian pharmacy that sent her the medication for $500 a month.

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Steve Nash hired as Canada's GM - KFMB News 8

Steve Nash hired as Canada's GM
KFMB News 8
The top Democrat in the Senate says he won't block much-feared automatic spending cuts to the Pentagon and Medicare providers until Republicans show more flexibility on cutting the budget deficit. The top Democrat in the Senate says he won't block ...

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Extendicare REIT Announces 2012 First Quarter Results - MarketWatch (press release)

Extendicare REIT Announces 2012 First Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Average daily revenue rates for Medicare Part A and Managed Care declined by 12.5% and 6.9%, respectively, this quarter from the Q3 2011 levels. In comparison to Q4 2011, average Medicare Part A rates declined by 1.6% and Managed Care rates increased ...

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The PolitiFact guide to Medicare attack lines - PolitiFact

The PolitiFact guide to Medicare attack lines
PolitiFact
It's a Canada-style, single-payer system. Liberals love that; conservatives don't. • It has approximately 50 million people on its rolls. • That 50 million will grow to 80 million as baby boomers retire. Paying for that will be a challenge.

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