False positive: private profit in Canada's health care: The Silo Strategy...
How did the for-profit labs become the sole providers of laboratory services for all non-hospital patients in Ontario? These patients, often called community patients, usually need a lab test that is...
View ArticleFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: Are OHIP Fees to...
Ontario’s recent decisions to cut fees for doctors’ services and move more services from hospitals to community facilities, called independent health facilities (IHF), raise numerous questions about...
View ArticleFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: Methadone Clinic...
One of Ontario’s little known private secrets is that most methadone, a staple of opiate addiction treatment, is primarily provided by for-profit clinics. Last week a doctor who works in one of these...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian Senate Expenses Scandal: Harper Must Back...
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Feb. 27, 2013: Has Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally awakened to the reality that Canada’s appointed Senate is indeed a scandal-ridden ”useless,...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Ford’s OHIP Changes: A Bummer, or Not?
I’m especially wondering about his plan to cut back on pain relief for colonoscopies. I’ve gone through the procedure twice. First time around they hit me with a General and I still didn’t pass out....
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