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Borderline health care:
How the U.S. health care plan stacks up against our own,
by Web One.
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Home and away: An ER physician's
frontline experience in Canada and Nepal. Launch |
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Health care’s controversial
history: A multimedia timeline with footage from CBC
Radio and Television archives.
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The Romanow Commission:
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For the 40 million Americans
without health care insurance, getting medical
attention is often a matter of jockeying through a system
which was designed for profit. Christopher Grosskurth
reports on CBC Radio One World Report. [Real
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On Newsworld Morning, Lisa Taylor
talks to Victor Rodwin, professor of health policy and
management at New York University, about comparisons
between Canada's and Britain's health care systems.
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CBC TV's Richard Madan reports on
a growing concern: poor health care access for
Manitoba's large aboriginal population.
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When is a doctor not a doctor?
Foreign born, foreign trained and not practising medicine.
Is the solution to the doctor crisis right in front of
our eyes? On CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada.
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Watch out for falling myths.
American medicine is not just for the rich. Christopher
Grosskurth compares our system with theirs. You decide
which is better. On The World at Six.
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Drugs Online: Thousands
of Americans are turning north to get cheap prescription
drugs. The practice has caught the attention of government
watchdogs on both sides of the border, worried about the
growing trend. Jo Lynn Sheane reports for CBC TV's Canada
Now. [Real
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Global Care: Lessons
learned from around the world on how to shape our health
care system. By examining care and treatment in Moscow,
Paris and Washington, how does Canada rank? On CBC TV's
The National.
Michel Cormier reports from Moscow. [Real
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Guy Gendron reports from Paris. [Real
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Adrienne Arsenault reports from Washington.
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Canadians ponder the
Welfare State: A burden removed or a communist plot?
A 1949 radio dramatization examines popular opinions for
and against a national health scheme for Canadians. Broadcast
Date: Jan. 26, 1949. From CBC Radio and Television
Archives Web site: The Creation of Medicare.
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