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CHRONICLE HERALD COLUMN: Putting Medical Travel Within Reach of Regular Nova Scotians
If Nova Scotia copied a health-care policy from the European Union (EU), the government could help patients immediately.
If Nova Scotia copied a health-care policy from the European Union (EU), the government could help patients immediately.
Know someone who is suffering on a long health care waiting list? A health-care policy that’s used across Europe could help reduce waiting lists in Manitoba immediately.
All it would take is a bit of vision.
If provincial governments copied a health care policy from Europe, they could immediately help thousands of Canadian patients who are suffering.
SecondStreet.org speaks with John Gormley from 650 CKOM (Saskatoon) and 980 CJME (Regina) about an EU health care policy that could reduce wait times for patients.
An EU health care policy could be implemented relatively easily and it could help relieve a lot of patient suffering in Canada.
SecondStreet.org spoke with Hal Anderson to discuss our health policy brief that examines the EU’s cross border directive.
Their policy allows EU patients to travel to other EU countries, pay for surgery and be reimbursed by their home country. (For up to the amount the government would have spent for the same procedure locally.)
Hal Anderson’s show can be heard on 680 CJOB in Winnipeg.
This policy brief examines the EU’s cross border directive – a policy that reimburses patients when they pay for surgery in other EU countries.
Think tank SecondStreet.org released a new report that examines a health care policy in Europe that could help address Canada’s waiting list crisis immediately.
SecondStreet.org sat down with Great.com’s Danielle Riberio to discuss our research into the sad reality that thousands of Canadians die each year while waiting for health services from the government.
SecondStreet.org sat down with Sharon Kilkenny – a patient who faced a 93 week waiting list for hip surgery while she lived in chronic pain.
SecondStreet.org speaks with Jessica Bailey from Saskatoon about the effects of the government cancelling her transplant surgery because of the pandemic.
SecondStreet.org spoke with Wendy Petersen from Manitoba about her long wait for knee replacement surgery in Canada.