Tag: Universal health care Canada

NS Mayor Calls for Change After Volunteer Firefighters Called to Help Hospitalized Patient

June 21, 2023
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The mayor of Middleton, Nova Scotia, is calling for changes to the province’s health-care system after a patient admitted to the local hospital died during a cardiac arrest, and volunteer firefighters were called in to help because there was no doctor available on site. Mayor Sylvester Atkinson wrote a letter on June 19 to Nova…

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John Robson: Poilievre Should Call for Provinces to Be Allowed More Leeway on Private Health Care

March 20, 2023
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Commentary To kick off the silly season, which in Canadian politics now seems to run year-round, Pierre Poilievre wants to make it easier for doctors and nurses to get their training recognized across the country. Which is sensible. But also deeply foolish. His proposal is sensible in taking square aim at two huge problems in…

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John Robson: Ontario’s New Health-Care Plan Is Nothing but More of the Same

August 22, 2022
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Commentary It seems finally to have dawned on Ontario’s political leadership that our crumbling health-care system is crumbling. Brilliant. You learned a simple word and after 40 years of denying waiting lists existed while promising to fix them and failing miserably, recognized an obvious situation. You must have an IQ of 16. Unfair, you say?…

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Universal Health Care Would Lead to Doctor Exodus: Expert

February 1, 2022
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A single-payer health care bill died in the California State Assembly on Jan. 31 without enough support from lawmakers—a win, according to a health care policy expert, as the bill would have increased taxes and slashed doctors’ payroll. Sally Pipes, president in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, told the EpochTV’s “California Insider”…

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