Health Canada's management of its 3 primary regulatory programs is so haphazard that it is
impossible to ascertain whether “it is fully meeting its responsibilities as the regulator of drug …

Health Canada's management of its 3 primary regulatory programs is so haphazard that it is
impossible to ascertain whether “it is fully meeting its responsibilities as the regulator of drug …

The first public meetings for Canada's Commission on the Future of Health Care yielded a
fair dose of hand-wringing and the predictable mix of prescriptions, ranging from pumping …

Canada's health care system is the victim of a lack of government planning and an overdose
of cost cutting, the CMA president says.“It was clear that a system established over 30 years …

Abstract The Canada Health Act (CHA) creates a series of “grey zones” in which
considerable discretion is granted to the federal health minister to determine what is subject …

The Canadian government will not relinquish its authority to unilaterally interpret and
enforce the Canada Health Act. This is despite provincial demands for a redefinition of “core” …

Canadian political leaders, regardless of ideology, have all learned to pledge allegiance to
the principle of a universal public health care system. But in terms of tangible commitments …

Although this position has no basis in fact or law, many believe it, especially when provincial
and territorial leaders repeat and reinforce it. The vacuum of federal leadership has resulted …

Pharmacare is an excellent example of the challenges facing medicare. Like home care,
pharmacare was recommended by Justice Emmett Hall's 1964 Royal Commission on Health …

The nation's largest health insurer will no longer cover the costs of many patients who
become sick or injured in hospital as a result of what it deems to be avoidable medical …