E arlier this fall, the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) reached a fee agreement with the
Ontario government that included a 1% increase in fees. With health care costs spiralling …

While acknowledging that it is difficult to justify on purely fiscal grounds, incoming MSNS
president Dr. Bill Acker thinks" it's high time we owned our own building". The society, at 133 …

Therefore, we might reasonably look to the new Medicaid schedule to determine the fairness
of our own fees in Canada andto test Gellman's assertions of gross disparity. I have …

C oncerning the article" Does university fee violate CHA?"(Can Med Assoc] r 1996; 155:
208), 1 raised similar concerns with the University of Toronto when I was a graduate student …

Drastic restraint. Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care Marvin Moore suggested health
costs could be cut if patients paid their own medical bills and were reimbursed later:" In a …

US,” Can Med Assoc J 1996; 155: 1599-1600), plastic surgeon Dr. Robert Harris compares
medical practice in Canada and the US. The only complaints he describes are purely …

Dr. Eamon Doyle of Winni-peg made sure of that when he asked delegates to declare a Feb-
ruary vote conducted by the MMA's Section of Family Practice" null and void". That ballot, on …

During its 4-month existence, Ontario's select committee on health care financing examined
189 written submissions and sat through 21 days of public hearings listening to 94 …

The CMPA's annual report indicates that of 884 legal actions commenced in 2008, 88 went
to trial but only 13 of those saw an outcome favouring a plaintiff. Some 341 actions were …

Med Assoc J 1997; 156: 770-1) with great interest. I fail to understand why we do not institute
patient copayments in Canada, since nearly every patient I speak with is in favour of them. I …