An estimated 20% of Newfoundland and Labrador's $3-billion health budget may be
inappropriately and ineffectively spent at present, according to a provincial expert who is …

Estimates suggest that one third of United States health care spending results from overuse
or misuse of tests, procedures, and therapies. The American Board of Internal Medicine …

Isense there's a potential for physicians to say the hell with it," Dr. Eric Stone,
secretarytreasurer of the Newfoundland Medical Association (NMA), says of the current state …

Cracking down on inefficient and clinically unnecessary practices like over-ordering
diagnostic tests, prescribing inappropriate medications and using unproven or speculative …

In 1986, Wennberg (1), the influential founder of the Dartmouth Atlas project on geographic
differences in health care, wrote a piece entitled" Which rate is right?," in which he described …

E very provincial health care system isfacing a funding crunch, but nowhere are the
pressures moreacute than in Newfoundland. There, federal spending cuts and freezes have …

In a letter to the editor of the Times, Dr. Ron Whelan, the CMA president, said the ad that was
purchased by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas carried" Canada …

Health care costs are rising in Canada, and not mainly because of population aging. One of
the fastest growing areas of health services spending is laboratory testing. Laboratory tests …

The proposed Canada Health Act is a replay of an age-old drama in which rhetoric holds
sway over knowledge, Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Marc Baltzan told the …

Abstract" Mr.[Stephen Harper]'s record on health care speaks for itself-he hasn't put a dime
of new spending into health care above the commitments Paul Martin made in the 2004 …