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Breaking News
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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
What do you think of Romanow's report? Tell us. Read the responses
Your Stories
What has your experience with the Canadian health care system been like? Tell us. Read the responses
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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