In a speech to the Primary Healthcare Forum, Haggie compared Newfoundland and
Labrador's economy to that of a developing nation.“We're in a fiscal hole that's unparalleled …

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 …

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 …

When the Newfoundland government announced in June that it would use military doctors
as a stopgap measure to solve physician shortages in rural parts of the province, local …

Hospitals and nursing homes in New York State face the loss of $1.15 billion in Medicaid
and Medicare funds--5.5 percent of their total revenues--under state and Federal budget …

LEAD: Massachusetts faces a public health crisis that threatens dramatic service cuts if the
state fails to meet its financial obligations, a broad range of health-care providers have …

British Columbia is delisting some covered medical services, cutting its Pharmacare plan
and slashing the administrative budget of its Ministry of Health in a bid to bring health …

" If we don't do something to control unnecessary costs, in 10 years we'll find ourselves
broke," said Vitale, D-Middlesex, chairman of the state Senate health, human services and …

Government health spending is growing at unsustainable rates, while patients are facing
shortages of medical resources and declining access to necessary medical care. The …

A Rock in a hard place Page 1 A Rock in a hard place Charlotte Gray In brief FEDERAL
MINISTER OF HEALTH ALLAN ROCK appears committed to improved funding for the health …