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Record costs threaten Canada's picture of health - Globe and Mail

Canada's health-care spending is expected to reach its highest level ever - $171.9-billion this year, or $5,170 per person - growing faster than the economy and outpacing inflation and population growth, new figures show. The Canadian Institute for ...

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5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System - Washington Post

1. America has the best health care in the world. Let's bury this one once and for all. The United States is No. 1 in only one sense: the amount we shell out for health care. We have the most expensive system in the world per capita, but we lag ...

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Obama, Baucus plans 'timid' - Billings Gazette

HELENA - Health care reform plans put forth by Sen. Max Baucus and President-elect Barack Obama are "too timid," because they rely on for-profit insurers to expand health coverage in America, writer T.R. Reid said Thursday. "Under those plans, we ...

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Newsweek: American 'Refugees' Head to Mexico for Health Care Fleeing ... - News Busters

Pushing a liberal talking point on America's health insurance "crisis", writer Tina Peng painted American medical tourists headed to Mexico as "refugees from an ailing health care system." Yet nowhere in her November 19 Newsweek Web exclusive did ...

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Penalizing the uninsured in Oklahoma OFFICIAL PROPOSES curbING driver ... - Daily Oklahoman

No health insurance, no football tickets. Oklahoma must take drastic steps to improve its dismal ranking in the number of residents who have no health insurance, state Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said Thursday during her agency’s Summit on ...

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Obama's health care plan not on minds of many U. Arkansas med students - U-Wire.com

With President-elect Barack Obama just months away from his inauguration, one of his agendas is gaining more attention and a host of supporters. Obama's health care reform became one of the main avenues for criticism from the Republican Party during ...

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Ted Kennedy Readies Universal Health Bill for 2009 - Wall Street Journal

Don’t let a malignant brain tumor or Max Baucus make you think Ted Kennedy has stepped aside on health reform. Yesterday, Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is battling brain cancer, made his first appearance on Capitol Hill since he showed up ...

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