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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006
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The patchwork of care in Canada

The Canada Health Act was supposed to ensure that all Canadians travelling or living outside their home province would not be cut off from access to medical services. The reality is somewhat different. 9:10 AM | FULL STORY 
Migration of specialists puts have-not regions in medical-staff crunch
Perry Brenholen has drops put into his right eye by a doctor in the ER at Weyburn General Hospital.

Competition between provinces and territories for experts in specialized fields is intense and counterproductive

10:18 AM | FULL STORY 
 Romanow warns critics not to hijack health report

Canadians don't want medicare document sidelined by further bickering, he says

10:52 AM | FULL STORY 
 Doctors call for more anti-smoking measures

Doctors say report failed to outline specific measures to combat smoking

11:36 AM | FULL STORY 
 Nova Scotia's MD recruiter has it easier than most

Ninety-four per cent of Nova Scotian adults have regular access to a family doctor. That puts the province in second place, behind Quebec

2:54 PM | FULL STORY 
 PM warns premiers to act on Romanow

Landry threatens battle over funds Little new in PM's speech to Quebec Grits

3:46 AM | FULL STORY 
 Cash alone won't cure medicare, Romanow says

Former premier argues, though, that health care should have "pretty near the first call" on new spending

11:03 AM | FULL STORY 
 Show us money for Romanow, Alliance demands

Opposition warns Ottawa will need to boost taxes to implement health commissioner's recommendations
Read the complete Romanow report on-line

12:09 PM | FULL STORY 
 Romanow's $15-billion cure

Report rejects private health systems

2:17 AM | FULL STORY 

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VITAL STATISTICS

Charts, tables and more
Key data from the Romanow report

FEEDBACK

Your reaction
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Your Stories
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COMMENT

Health care: Do we know better than everyone else?
Canadians are so conditioned to compare everything here to the United States that they know little about systems other than the American one, says JEFFREY SIMPSON

11:03 AM

'Dr. Profit' is ready to operate
Hospitals are funded so that they can't afford to do all the surgery that people need. The more the worse, which is why they are forced to impose rationing, says MARGARET WENTE

2:44 PM

Romanow threatens our real defining feature
Medicare is not Canada's international calling card. No country looking to design a health-care system would use it as the model, says DREW FAGAN

2:40 PM

INTERACTIVES

The Landscape
A snapshot of care across the country

The History
From the birth of medicare to the dawn of the Romanow report

Expert Input
We asked the experts what they want to see in Romanow's report

The Legislation
The basics on the legal principles in question

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