A new study by the Ontario College of Family Physicians has found that 2.2 million of the 14 million residents of Canada’s largest and wealthiest province do not have a family doctor. The finding is a major indictment of the for-profit or paid model that is now being promoted as Ontario’s go-to model for surgeries by the province’s Conservative government. “The number of unassigned patients is growing across the province and region,” says Steve Gray, managing director of Medical Associates of Port Perry. “The Medical Associates wait list has never…
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Price out of health: how expensive drugs are putting lives at risk
In Bulgaria, 19% of respondents in a recent survey revealed that they cannot afford all the medicines they need. In this latest episode of Smart Health, we find out how the EU sets out to cut costs to help those most in need. Mariana Alexandrova, 53, lives in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. She has type 2 diabetes and her heart is very fragile. “I take three types of medicines for the heart, two types for diabetes and about four other types of medicines for other diseases,” he told Euronews.…
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