A recent conference in Toronto addressed whether Australia has anything to teach Canada about how Canadian medicare might evolve. It’s a useful question to explore. Australia and Canada share many characteristics, but Canadians may not know that one of them ...
Read More »Let’s stop living in health-care funding past
How much should the federal government pay towards health-care costs? Hardly a week goes by without this thorny issue being disputed between federal and provincial governments—even now that the federal budget has been tabled and health accord agreements have been ...
Read More »CUPE knocks Ontario panel on self-directed home care
An Ontario panel’s call for self-directed home care, increases burden on families, takes wrong-approach to changing the home-care system, claims the union. Far from fixing a disjointed and mostly private home care system that does not provide patients with adequate ...
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