Topic: Canada

Canada seeks a way to limit health-spending increases

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's top finance officials will try at a meeting next week to come to grips with the thorny problem of how to limit the rising costs of the country's universal public health-care system in the face of an aging ...

Ex-central banker warns on Canada health spending

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada can't keep spending on healthcare at its current rate, and must choose between a number of unpopular options for its state-funded medical system, a former central bank chief said on Wednesday.David Dodge, co-author of a study by the ...

Taxes When Mom or Dad Depends on You

Even modest retirement income can thwart your attempt to claim a parent as a dependent.Even modest retirement income can thwart your attempt to claim a parent as a dependent.Although you may spend a lot of time and money supporting an aging parent, ...
Take it from a Canadian, approximately half of Canadian revenue is spent on health care, to the detriment of anything else which needs fixing or restructuring in the country. Even though America has ten times the population of Canada, and normally would ...
The United States is the only industrialized nation without some form of single-payer universal health care system. Many doctors, politicians and health-care experts argue that the United States should adopt a system along the lines of those offered by Canada and leading ...
I have to hand in to them - that Congress of ours. The current plan, the one floating around Congress, is to make cuts to Medicare to help pay for the cost. In ten years or so, all the members of Congress ...

Universal Healthcare

If we had universal healthcare four years ago, I would be dead. I know that in the early nineties, when I was working my way through college at a multi-practice clinic in New Hampshire, a Canadian ENT (ears, nose and throat) doctor ...
Today while I was doing errands I found myself listening to the radio (Of course I had it turned to 1520 AM) and became sick to my stomach as info on the health bill came out. Wake up America we DO NOT ...
With a new president in office, expectations are high about the progress he will be able to make in Washington that will improve our country and our personal lives. Because of the issues with health care in Canada the new president of ...
The Government stalemate on budget talks has been criticized as just a strategy of both parties to reinforce their agendas in this year's presidential election. But, John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, claims the United States would ...
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