Introduce competition to boost health care, MDs say. Andre Picard. Saskatoon. ... "Wait times should not be the price to pay for universal health care," Robert Ouellet, ...

T he proportion of households spending over 10% of their income on health has risen by 40% since 2000. This film explores how poor nations can make health care affordable for their citizens. The ...

Every health care system has its strengths and weaknesses, including Canada's. Here's how that nation's system works, why it's admired (and sometimes disparaged) by some in the U.S., and why ...

Premier Dalton McGuinty set out his reasons for reinstating the premiums in a speech last Monday. "Change [to the health-care system]will save lives and it will save money in the long run," he said.

And Canada remains the only country with universal health care and no universal drug plan. Staples says skyrocketing prescription drug costs also put a tremendous financial burden on the system.

In his first return to the Senate since July, Sen. Edward Kennedy on Monday reaffirmed his plans to introduce universal health care legislation in early 2009. Kennedy noted that President-elect Barack ...

From this vantage point, universal health care is about common dignity, the idea that each of us believes in the basic worth of another's life. We may not have lived up to that standard yet, but ...

Brainstorming On Universal Health Care. June 8, 2006 / 11:20 AM EDT / CBS/AP ... established by Congress with the mandate of finding out what Americans want when it comes to health care ...

Health Minister Sarah Hoffman has confirmed the NDP government plans to introduce a bill designed to protect public health care when the new session of the legislature begins March 18.

Backed by at least 15 Democratic senators, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will introduce legislation Wednesday to expand Medicare into a universal health insurance program. The only way for the U.S ...

There had been attempts to introduce some kind of universal health care in the United States, but it had been politically contentious. Many Americans suffer inadequate health care or have to pay ...