Editor’s note: This column, a repeat from last year, is a follow-up to the previous Health Care Buzz column.
Several adults are either on Traditional Medicare/TM already or are looking to move to Medicare as they turn 65 and have many questions about: Will Traditional Medicare always be the primary insurance after 65? Is there ever a time it won’t be? Great questions and as always, there are multi-layered answers.
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When Medicare began in 1965, it was the primary payer for all claims except for those covered by Worker’s Compensation, Federal Black Lung and Veteran’s Administration…
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Instacart CEO Fidji Simo launches her health care side hustle
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The battle over mifepristone continues, Taylor Swift vetted FTX better than the pros, and Fortune senior writer Maria Aspan talks to Instacart’s CEO about getting her health care startup off the ground. Happy Thursday.
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Manitoba wants 150 new family doctors for the province, and recruitment specialists to find them
Shared Health is looking for outside help to address the severe physician shortage in Manitoba.
The organization that co-ordinates health care in Manitoba is seeking as many as three external firms to recruit an additional 150 family physicians to the province: up to 50 each in Winnipeg; the northern health region and Churchill; and the rest of rural Manitoba.
“Evolving population health needs, systemic issues, changes in how new medical graduates want to practice, and an increasing proportion of the physician workforce approaching retirement have all contributed to a need to increase the number of family physicians practicing in Manitoba,”…
Robert Libman: Language, health care and the art of deflecting
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Quebec’s online initiative could yield positive results if it focused more on the promotion of French and less on the threat of English.
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Published March 31, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 3 minute read
“The status quo is no longer an option,” Health Minister Christian Dubé said this week as he explained Bill 15, Quebec’s new legislation for health-care reform. Photo by Jacques Boissinot /The Canadian Press
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CAQ unveils Santé Québec, the new agency in charge of fixing the province’s health-care system
François Legault’s government is banking on a new provincial agency to fix its battered health-care system, and it’s called Santé Québec.
The creation of Santé Québec is the foundational piece of Bill 15, which Health Minister Christian Dubé tabled at the National Assembly on Wednesday.
If it becomes law, Santé Québec will oversee all activities related to the public health-care system, including providing services and facilitating access.
The province’s Health Ministry would provide broad guidelines, Dubé said, but Santé Québec would be the organization in charge.
Santé Québec would also help organize elements of the private sector.
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Cruel health care cut targets the most vulnerable
By the mid-1990s, it was common for analysts to lament a rising culture of meanness. Public anger and government cutbacks seemed aimed at punishing those already struggling. Worse, the mood took hold at the very time the wealth and income gaps between the rich and the rest was expanding.
There’s a strong taste of that mood in the decision by Doug Ford’s government to wind down a pandemic program, established in March 2020, to give uninsured Ontario patients access to medically necessary care.
It was a program of the Health Network for Uninsured Clients, in a report released last week,…
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Ontario blast doctors province for ending health care for uninsured residents
Ontario doctors and the organization representing them blasted the provincial government on Saturday for its quietly unveiled plans to end a program that provides health-care services for people without health insurance.
The Ontario Medical Association said it first learned of the pending suspension on Friday, issuing a statement saying it received notice from the government that the Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program would wind down as of March 31. The Ministry of Health later confirmed the decision and end date.
OMA PresidentDr. Rose Zacharias said her organization, which represents the province’s doctors, is “extremely concerned” about the…