Category: Health Care
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has been sounding the alarm about privatization creeping into the public health-care system.
Recently, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced he wanted to give a greater role to privately run for-profit clinics. These facilities are clinics
A dust-up over the future of the notwithstanding clause, shouldn’t impact health care talks with provincial governments, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday
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In 2021, the US spent 17.8 percent of GDP on health care, nearly double the average of 9.6 percent for high-income countries, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. Health care spending per capita
About 160 veteran nurses, personal support workers and health-care technicians, along with their families, gathered in a church hall in Port Perry, Ont., in person or by video conference, on a snowy afternoon this past Saturday.
These distressed individuals have
Carrie Willetts, the new President and CEO of WVU Medicine – Uniontown Hospital, is no stranger to Uniontown and the Laurel Highlands.
As a high school student, Willetts spent a summer working for a kayak outfitter company at Ohiopyle, and
A small, but boisterous, crowd of about 50 people made its way through downtown Sydney, NS, on Sunday to demand better health care for those who need it.
The rally follows the recent deaths of two Nova Scotia women who
Ontario patients did not turn to emergency departments as a substitute for in-person visits with their family doctors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found.
The research, released by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA)
To evaluate health care in the United States, MoneyGeek looked at three categories of data that together create a comprehensive view of the overall quality of health care in each location. Those categories include:
- Health outcomes, including indicators such as
New Brunswick’s premier says public pressure has been the key factor in recent progress toward a deal on health-care funding between the federal government and provinces.
Blaine Higgs said in an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live that he
The health-care service in Chetwynd, about 1,100 km northeast of Vancouver, has been so intermittent that Ashley MacWilliam is afraid it will put people like her asthmatic daughter Aurora at risk.
The hospital in the community of about 2,500 had