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Medical Reform Group Newsletter
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The Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG) had its beginnings in the autumn of 1978 as an initiative by a small group of doctors who were concerned that there was no voice for progressive, socially-conscious physicians in Canada. They sought to create a forum to address the social dimensions of health and illness. Members were united around three principles which were adopted at the MRG’s official founding meeting in 1979:
1. The universal access of every person to high quality, appropriate health care must be guaranteed. The health care system must be administered in a manner which precludes any monetary or other deterrent to equal care.
2. Health care workers, including physicians, should seek out and recognize the social, economic, occupational, and environmental causes of disease, and be directly involved in their eradication.
3. The health care system should be structured in a manner in which the equally valuable contribution of all health workers is recognized. Both the public and health care workers should have a direct say in resource allocation and in determining the setting in which health care is provided.
The Medical Reform Group dissolved in 2014 after 35 years of advocacy work.
Read the Connexipedia article about the Medical Reform Group here.
To see news releases issued by the MRG between 1979 and 1995, see here.
Listed below are all newsletters, magazines, and mailings published by the Medical Reform Group from 1979 through 2014. Many, but not all, are available online in PDF format: you can click on the links to view them. Print issues are available in the Connexions Archive in Toronto. The Connexions Archive would like to complete its collection of print and PDF issues of the MRG Newsletter, as well as MRG briefs and public statements. If you have materials, print or digital, which you could donate to Connexions, please contact Ulli Diemer via this contact form.
Issue No.
PDF Link |
Date |
Volume No. |
| Content |
Contents |
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| The Medical Reform Group: An Update |
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| Second General Meeting |
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| The Draft Constitution |
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| Working Committees |
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| Hamilton Chapter |
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| Toronto Group |
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| #2 |
August 1979 |
Hamilton Chapter Mailing |
| Content |
Title |
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| Health Care Under Attack |
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| Medical Reform Group |
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| The Toronto meeting |
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| Did You Know? |
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| On the Horizon |
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| Content |
Title |
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Notice of October 14, 1979
MRG General Meeting |
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| MRG Update |
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| Constitution |
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| Working Groups: Opting Out and Cutbacks |
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| Canadian Medical Group Seminar |
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| Medicare in Crisis: A Conference |
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| Doctors: Are You Happy with the State of Health Care in Ontario? |
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| Content |
Title |
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| Who is on our mailing list? |
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| Membership |
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| Membership fees |
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| The October 14 General Meeting |
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| MRG Steering Committee |
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| Steering Committee Meeting |
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| The MRG goes public |
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| The Working Groups |
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| Organizational Activities |
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| MRG Calendar |
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| Issue #5 |
December 1979 |
Toronto Chapter Update |
| Content |
Title |
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| Upcoming events |
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| About the working groups |
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| Economics working group |
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| Environmental health working group |
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| Health in the Third World working group |
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| An Appeal |
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| Occupational Health Seminar |
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| Content |
Title |
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| Membership and Organization |
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| Pamphlet of the Medical Reform Group |
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Working Groups:
Economics
Health and Underdevelopment
Occupational Health
Community Health Centres
Environmental Health
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| Brief to the Hall Commission |
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| General Meeting |
– |
| The MRG and the Media |
– |
| Issue #7 |
March 1980 |
Toronto Chapter Mailing |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Calendar of Events |
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| Presentation to the Hall Commission |
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| Toronto Chapter meeting |
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| Working Groups |
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| Issue #8 |
April 1980 |
Toronto Chapter Mailing |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Calendar of Events |
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| Presentation to the Hall Commission |
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| General Update |
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| Policy on Women |
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| Organization and Publicity |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Brief to the Hall Commission |
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| General Meeting: May 23-24, 1980 |
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| Where Do We Go From Here? |
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From the Working Groups:
Economics
Community Health Centres
Environmental Health
Health & Underdevelopment
Occupational Health
Women & Health |
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| An MRG Magazine? |
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| From the Steering Committee |
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| Medical Reform Group Brochure |
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| Regional Reports |
– |
| Outside Ontario |
– |
| Introductory Package |
– |
| Of Interest |
– |
| Content |
Title |
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| Minutes of April 22, 1980 meeting |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Edification and Enlightenment |
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| Thoughts on Occupational Health and Safety |
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| Malnutrition and Starvation in Africa Ignored |
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| Health Service Organizations: Criteria for an Appropriate Method of Funding |
Community Clinics Work Group |
Much More Than “Opting Out”:
Resolutions passed at May 24th General Meeting |
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| The Frontlines: Reports from the Working Groups |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| East Side Story |
Nick Kates |
| El Salvadorean health workers protest rights violation |
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| Barriers to Prevention |
Benjamin Loevinsohn |
| Letter to the Editor |
Mayor John Sewell |
| Jobs and Notices |
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| Progressive Medicine: A Bibliography |
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| Issue #15 |
Autumn 1981 |
MRG Magazine,
Vol. 1, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Disappointment, Hope – and the MRG Magazine |
Gord Guyatt |
| World Health: Healthcare in the new Nicaragua |
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Community Health Centres:
An MRG Perspective |
Community Clinics Working Group |
| The Toronto Health Advocacy Unit and the New Public Health Movement |
Trevor Hancock |
| The Toronto Occupational Health Resource Committee |
Brian Gibson |
| Why the MRG? |
Gord Guyatt |
| October Meeting: Decisions to be made |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Steering Committee |
– |
| Hall Commission Brief |
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| May General Meeting |
– |
| Committees |
– |
| #17 |
April 13, 1982 |
Mailing |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| May General Meeting |
– |
| Medical Aid to Nicaragua |
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| Issue #19 |
April 1982 |
PoliticaLetter Vol. 1, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| What does the Weiler Report really say, or, many argue about it but few have read it cover to cover |
Debby Copes |
| Issue #20 |
August 1982 |
PoliticaLetter Vol. 1, No. 2 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Report on meeting with Ontario Health Minister Larry Grossman |
Debby Copes, John Frank, Gord Guyatt, Bob James, Barb Lent |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Fall General Meeting of MRG |
– |
| Membership fees |
– |
| London chapter |
– |
| Toronto chapter |
– |
| Pamphlet being considered |
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| Liberal Party Task Force |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Notice accepted in principle at MRG General Meeting, May 16, 1982 |
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| Issue #23 |
January 1983 |
PoliticaLetter Vol. 2, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| The Canada Health Act |
Debby Copes |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Canada Health Act |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Health care, the 80's and Beyond |
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| Medical Supplies for OXFAM-Canada Projects Overseas |
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| Highlights of the Spring General Meeting |
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| Friday Evening Meeting – A Talk by Dr. Robert Chernomas |
Robert Chernomas |
| Saturday General Meeting |
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| A Free-Standing Outpatient Abortion Clinic for Toronto? |
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| Doctors' College Called Undemocratic |
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| Review of the Spring General Meeting |
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| Abortion & Abortion Clinics |
Miriam Garfinkle |
| Resolution on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and User Fees |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Notice and Agenda of October 1983 General Meeting |
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| Differing Diagnoses on Health Care |
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| The ailing credibility of doctors |
Jonathan Lomas |
| First things first |
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| Letter to Ontario Minister of Health Keith Norton in support of medically insured free-standing abortion clinics |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Fall General Meeting Agenda and Information |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Canada Health Act |
— |
| Drug Cost at Stake in Patient Law Battle |
Charlotte Montgomery |
| News Release on Canada Health Act |
December 13, 1983 |
| The Danger of Travelling the U.S. Route on Medicare |
Cynthia Carver |
| Most Doctors Want to Stay in OHIP Rebel MD Says |
Hamlin Grange |
| Medicare Penalties Need More Teeth, Advocacy Group Says |
Robert Stephens |
| The Canadian Health Coalition Press Conference, December 14, 1983 |
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| Medicare System Envied in U.S. |
Paul Taylor |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Ontario Health Professions Legislation |
Paul Rosenberg |
| Ontario Health Coalition Conference, February 24-25, 1984 |
Fran Scott |
| The Canada Health Act |
— |
| Extra-Billing is Tax on Sick, Doctors' Reform Group Says |
Bruce Ward |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Canada Health Act / Medicare |
— |
| Doctors' Group Attacks Critics of Health Act |
Farrell Crook |
| Background of Medicare in Ontario |
— |
| Doctors Lose Patience with Hospital Inc. |
Murray MacAdam |
| Health News in Brief |
Ulli Diemer |
| Discussion Paper on MRG Endorsement of Other Groups |
Phil Berger |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Spring General Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| Steering Committee Report, Spring General Meeting |
— |
| Opposition to OMA Scare Tactics Urged on 'Decent' Doctors |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Reform MDs Attack OMA Over New Act |
Pat Daley |
| GP Fights Bill that Gives File Access |
Ken Pole |
| Proposed Security Bill Threatens Patient Confidentiality Says CMA Secretary-General |
— |
| MP's Remarks Anger CMA |
— |
| Loophole in Health Act May Put an End to Premiums |
John Shaughnessy |
| OMA Mislead Members; Group Says |
Pat Rich |
| Issue #32 |
August 1984 General Meeting Notice |
Vol. 4, No. 4 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Medical Reform Group General Meeting and Fifth Anniversary |
— |
| Second Submission of the Medical Reform Group to the Health Profession Legislation Review |
— |
| Not Always What Doctor Ordered |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Medical Charges Assailed |
— |
| Perform Group Overpublicized |
— |
| Berger has His Say |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG General Meeting Report |
Ulli Diemer |
| A Brief Briefing Paper to the Medical Reform Group on the Support of the Health Research in Canada |
Carol Buck |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Abortion Press Conference |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Abortion Faster Safer in Clinics MDs' Group Says |
Robert Sutton |
| Government Assailed on Abortion Policy |
Lorrie Goldstein |
| Abortion News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Bizarre Abortion Mess |
— |
| Letters to Editor |
— |
| Questioning the Test |
John Haslett Cuff |
| Where There’s Smoke, There's Money |
Robert Sherrill |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Medical Reform Group General Meeting |
— |
| Women and Health Care |
— |
| Meetings, Publications and Other Notes of Interest |
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| The Doctor's Office that's Drive In |
Bud Gordon |
| Good Communication is Essential |
The Patients’ Advocate |
| The Economic Illusion |
Robert Kuttner |
| Blood Testing an Ethical Trap |
— |
| Ontario Group Wants Earlier, Easier Abortions |
— |
| End Predicted to Medical Extra Billing |
— |
| MRG: Enforcing Health Act Eliminating Premium Key |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Spring General Meeting |
— |
| Report: Health Disciplines Review |
— |
| Notices and Announcements |
— |
| Evolution of Health Care: A Working Option to OHIP |
Robert Frankford |
| Workers' Centre Fights for Healthy, Safe Workplace |
Virginia Galt |
| MD Broke an Oath at U.S. Protest, Lawyer Charges |
Glen Mackenzie |
| Brainwashing Protest |
— |
| Asbestos Masks "Cosmetic" Says Firm |
Angela Singer |
| Vaccine Creator Walking Again |
— |
| Abortion Pickets Miss the Point |
— |
| Doctors Pressure Colleague |
Maureen Murray |
| Pushing Pills for Profit in Canada |
Joel Lexchin |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| General Meeting Report |
Ulli Diemer |
| From Steering Committee |
— |
| Report: Health Disciplines Review |
— |
| Notices and Announcements |
— |
| MRG Introduces "Generic" Speeches |
— |
| Forum Discusses Nursing Report |
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| Anne Coy on OARNA Review |
— |
| The Doctors Who Care |
June Callwood |
| Group Calls for End to Opting Out of OHIP |
Hamilton Spectator |
| Extra-Billing Costs Ontario $44 Million |
Caitlin Kelly |
| Premier Writes Doctors Supporting Extra Billing |
Ross Howard |
| Extra-Billing Avoided as a Big Election Issue |
Murray Campbell |
| Abortion Foes Cite Historic Law |
— |
| 5 Doctors Get Abortion Training at Morgentaler's Toronto Clinic |
Robert Sutton |
| Doctor's Looking South Face Familiar Problem |
Caitlin Kelly |
| Health Care a Key Election Issue |
— |
| Increase Price of Drugs to Pay for Research Inquiry Urges |
Joel Ruimy |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Shaving Costs of Medical Care by Toning Up The System |
Cynthia Carver |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Tackles Drug Advertising |
Ulli Diemer |
| MRG Meets With Health Minister |
Gord Guyatt |
| Of Interest... |
— |
| Notices and Announcements |
— |
| Proposed Resolution on Maternal Health Care |
— |
| First and Foremost in Community Centres: The Centre in Sault Ste Marie and the CHC Alternative |
Jonathan Lomas |
| A Letter to MRG Members From Nicaragua |
— |
| Some MDs Expressing Alarm Over Drug Sales Campaigns |
Linda McQuaig |
| Critique of Multinationalists Rejected by Journal's Editor |
— |
| Doctors' Rights |
Philip Berger |
| Case for Midwifery Gets Boost from Obstetrician |
Linda Hossie |
| Challenge of Health Acts is Criticized |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Letter to Michel Cote |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| General Meeting |
— |
| Former Judge Assails WCB |
Rudy Platiel |
| Company MDs Push Quick Return to Work, University Study Says |
Stephen Strauss |
| Stricken Workers Misused, Experts Say |
Ian Mulgrew, Gabor Mate |
| The Company Doctor May Be a Hazard to Your Health |
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| Why U.S. Medicare is Unfair to Millions of Elderly Citizens |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| General Meeting Report |
Ulli Diemer |
| Higher Limits Proposed for Work-Place Toxins |
— |
| Notices and Announcements |
— |
| Of Interest... |
— |
| OMA has Taken a Fringe Position on Extra Billing, Says Reform Group |
Kathleen Harford |
| Doctors Denounce as Unfair Proposed Extra-Billing Ban |
Ann Silversides |
| Dr. Michael Rachlis Addresses Poverty Meeting |
— |
| Labor Group Fights Medical Monitoring |
Virginia Galt |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Resolutions at Fall General Meeting |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Media Coordinator's Report Jan. 10, 1986 |
Michael Rachlis |
| Press Releases |
— |
| The Myth That Extra-Billing is Good for All |
Michael Rachlis |
| MRG Continues Battle Against Extra Billing... |
Michael Rachlis |
| End of Extra-Billing: What do MDs Merit? |
Judy Steed |
| Extra-Billing: MD Claims Won't Wash |
Gordon Guyatt |
| OHIP Feud Centres on Freedom, Fairness |
Robert Matas |
| Privatization of Health Care Seen as No Solution to Problem of Cost |
Ann Silversides |
| Reformer Rips OMA 'Blunder' |
Linda Barnard |
| Medical News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Spring General Meeting |
— |
| Update on Extra Billing |
Michael Rachlis |
| MRG Press Statements |
— |
| MRG Summary Sheet for CMA Task Force Report on the Allocation of Health Care Resources |
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| Progress On Rational Use of Drugs |
— |
| Coalition Warns Mulroney to Resist Drug Industry Pressure |
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| Letter to College of Family Physicians |
— |
| Against Dr. Barbara Lent |
Dahlia Reich |
| Reform Group Accuses Doctors of Burying Negative Report |
Linda McQuaig |
| Doctors' Group Supports Ban |
— |
| Extra-Billing Stands Draws MDs' Ire |
Ann Silversides |
| Extra-Billing Worry for Senators |
Carolyn Dykeman |
| Doctors in Ontario Show Rare Unity in Extra-Billing Battle |
Pat Rich |
| Many Area MDs Back Call for Defiance |
Christine Cox |
| OMA asked for Apology Over 'False' Poster on Extra Billing |
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| Labor, Women, Elderly to Rally in Support of Extra-Billing Ban |
Denise Harrington |
| OMA Plans Health Care Accessibility Week and Asks Members to Disobey Pending Law |
Kathleen Harford |
| Doctors' Groups Split Over Extra-Billing Law as MPPs Start Hearings |
Duncan McMonagle |
| Doctors' View of Civil Servants Insulting, Union President Says |
Susan Delacourt |
| Lincoln MDs Will Stage First Protest |
Dana Robbins |
| Ban Doctors' Extra Billing |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Patients Print Own Cards on Billing |
Ann Silversides |
| Practising What We Preach |
Lynn Lathrop |
| Abortion Doctor Breaks Silence in Call for Coverage by OHIP |
William Walker |
| OMA Fanatics Ruining Respect Doctors Earned |
Trevor Hancock |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| General Meeting Report |
Ulli Diemer |
| But this Doctor Talking Medicine, Not Politics |
Brian Porter |
| Doctor Defends Government on Extra Billing Issue |
— |
| MRG in the Media |
Gord Guyatt |
| Group’s Claims on Health Care are Disputed |
Denise Harrington |
| Treating the Person, Not the Purse? |
Steven Rauchman |
| Lesson for Ontario Doctors in Two Western Facedowns |
Gabor Mate |
| The Sick Will Be the Ones Who Suffer |
Anita Elash |
| MD Remains at Work; Cities More Serious Challenge |
Ann Silversides |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Mock Trial Finds Abortion Laws Unjust |
Erika Rosenfeld |
| Doctors Resist Needed Reform |
Ken Pole |
| Drug Industry Warns New Bill Could Cost Ontario 2,000 Jobs |
Denise Harrington |
| Choice's New Face |
Susan G. Cole |
| This Doctor Supports Ban and Refuses to Stop Working |
Paul Benedetti |
| Doctor Criticizes OMS for Extra-Billing Stand |
Ann Silversides |
| Reformer Question OMA Tactics |
Alex Matheson |
| Doctor Opposed to Strike Says it 'Victimized' One Patient |
Kevin Von Appen, Emilia Casella, Louis Smirlis |
| MRG Resolution Approved at Semi-Annual Meeting May 3rd 1986 |
— |
| Extra Billing |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Issue #46 |
October, 1986 |
General Meeting agenda |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Murray Elston to speak at MRG meeting |
– |
| Extra billing is banned but extra charges continue |
– |
| Select committee on health |
– |
| Letter about situation in Chile |
– |
| Letter to minister of consumer and corporate affairs regarding changes to Patent Act |
Robert Frankford for MRG |
| Drug prices: we can still fight to keep them under control |
Joel Lexchin |
| Ethics profs criticize MDs for striking |
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| Strike “disgusting” health group charges |
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| Bravo for group of radical doctors |
– |
| Clippings |
– |
| MD tired of rhetoric from his colleagues |
Fred Freedman |
| Doctors fear image may be tarnished forever |
– |
| Our readers do battle |
– |
| Doctors’ strike ‘petering’ out? |
– |
| Extra-billing ban means little, patients find |
Ann Silversides |
| Public health body won’t back strikers |
– |
| Doctor recalls when bills unpaid |
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| Boycott rejected |
– |
| Law that has MDs seeing red |
– |
| Law practises bad medicine |
Nikki Colodny |
| Abortion doctor fights on |
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| The Strain of Controversy |
– |
| Letter to the Editor of Ontario Medical Review |
Bob Frankford for MRG Steering Committee |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG General Meeting |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Update on Proposed Changes to the Patent Act |
Joel Lexchin |
| Extra Billing: What's Up, Doc? |
Susan Stock |
| Labor Ministry Officials Sabotaging Laws to Protect Workers, Brief Says |
John Deverell |
| Laying the Blame for a Political Catastrophe |
Philip Berger |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG October General Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| Notices and Announcements |
— |
| After the Doctors' Strike: Where Do We Go from Here? |
Ralph W. Sutherland |
| Get Consent for AIDS Test, Doctor Urges |
Craig McInnes |
| Medical Mistakes Slip Through Testing Net, Authors Say |
Ann Silversides |
| Job Threatened Over Studies of Cancer Links, MD Says |
John Deverell |
| Doctor Defends Toned-Down Study on Worker Health |
John Deverell |
| Power Shifts to Insurers in U.S. Medical System |
— |
| Technology Serves the Rich While the Poor Wait for Care |
Ann Silversides |
| Community Clinics Called Sane Route to Health Services |
Ann Silversides |
| U.S. Leads the Way in Controlling Health Care Costs |
Ann Silversides |
| New Fees Allowed MDs Slammed by Medical Group |
Lillian Newbery |
| Women Get Worse Medical Care than Men, Female Doctor Says |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Submission to the Committee on Privatization from the Medical Reform Group of Ontario |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Responds to Request from Evan Commission |
— |
| Doctors and Strikes and Governments |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Discussion Paper of Issues Related to the Physicians' Job Against Bill 94 |
Michael Rachlis |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| A Prescription for Profits |
Joel Lexchin |
| Abortions at Morgentaler Clinic Doubled Because MDs Refuse Referrals |
— |
| Workers' Health and Safety Checkup |
Ellie Kirzner |
| Extra-Billed Patients Given $7,000 |
Ann Silversides |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Medical Group Spring General Meeting Background Psychiatry and Current Issue of Patient Rights |
— |
| 1986 Amendments to the Ontario Mental Health Act |
— |
| Learning Political Science With the MRG |
Robert Frankford |
| Alternative Therapies - A Challenge |
Fred Freedman |
| The British Columbia Billing Numbers Dispute |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Challenges to Hospitals Under Charter are Predicted |
Ann Silversides |
| The MRG Brief to the Parliamentary Committee on Bill C-22 |
— |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| A Nasty Replica of Question Period |
Joel Ruimy |
| Politicians Moving Cautiously on Abortion |
Rosemary Speirs |
| Mental Health Act Amendments: Review for the Spring 1987 Meeting of the MRG |
Don Woodside |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG General Meeting |
Ulli Diemer; |
| Book Review (A Savage Enquiry: Who Controls Childbirth?) |
Catherine Oliver |
| Women's Health Initiatives: Steps Forward or Sideways? |
Fran Scott |
| Health News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Hospitals' Bold Assault on City Treasury |
— |
| Prognosis for Walk-In Clinics: Good Health Throughout '80s |
Stephen Nicholls |
| Prepaid Plans: Will Dentists Bite? |
Marina Strauss |
| Doctors' Blood Pressure Climbs When Income Drops; Study Finds |
— |
| Health Care Field Provides No Cure for Gambling Urge |
— |
| Keeping the Lid on the Health-Care Pressure Cooker |
Rosemary Speirs |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Steering Committee Update |
– |
| MRG Second Annual Picnic |
– |
| Toronto chapter meeting |
– |
| Notices & Announcements |
– |
| Health News Briefs |
– |
| Free Trade and Health Care in Canada |
– |
| Health & Safety committees need more teeth |
– |
| Patients’ rights ‘lost in shuffle’ in health-care power struggle |
– |
| Hospitals pitch harder for patients |
– |
| The New York Experience: Marketing Blitz |
– |
| Editor’s Lamenting Doggrell |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG General Meeting announcement |
– |
| Proposed Resolution for Fall General Meeting |
– |
| Steering Committee Update |
– |
| Agenda for Fall General Meeting |
– |
| MRG Incorporation |
– |
| AIDS Working Group Update |
– |
| Toward a Shared Direction for Health in Ontario |
Ontario Health Review Panel |
| Doctors using administration fees to get around billing rules |
– |
| Doctors’ group wants all party leaders to outline plans for ending extra-billing |
– |
| Health Issues the candidates are ignoring |
Trevor Hancock |
| Questions to Political Parties |
– |
| Ontario Liberal Party Response to MRG Questionnaire |
– |
| Ontario NDP Response to MRG Questionnaire |
– |
| Progressive Conservation Party Response to MRG Questionnaire |
– |
| Close links between doctors, drug industry |
Joel Lexchin |
| Issue #55 |
October - November, 1987 |
Vol. 7, No. 6 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| General Meeting Report |
Michael Rachlis |
| A Premier’s Council on Health: Is it a Benefit to Reform or Will It Be an Impediment to Change? |
Ted Ball |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| The Schwartz Commission and Discipline |
— |
| Doctors Using Administration Fees to Get Around Billing Rules: Report |
— |
| Why Women's Groups Oppose Depo-Provera |
Marsha M. Cohen |
| A Review of "To Hurt and To Heal" |
Philip Hebert |
| Another Review of "To Hurt and To Heal" |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| AIDS and the Restriction of Liberties |
Philip Hebert |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Skid Row Revisited |
— |
| Social Spending Can Avert a Recession |
— |
| Utilization of Health Care in Ont. Partially Falls in Laps of Doctors |
Pat Rich |
| Hospitals Find Sidelines to Raise Money for Care |
Marina Strauss |
| Hospital in the Home |
— |
| Ministers Differ on Linking of Trade, Drugs |
Christopher Waddell |
| Report Predicts Imports Will Flood Market |
Joan Breckenridge |
| Good Health Care: Is It a Legal Right? |
David Golden |
| Business Smells Profit in Bid for Clean Workplace |
Craig McInnes |
| Seizing the Unborn |
— |
| Health Care System Cheaper than in U.S. |
— |
| Rising Costs of Health Care Still Outstrip Medicare Gains |
Robert Pear |
| 73 of 100 Sewage Staff Have Skin Complains, Study Says |
William Walker |
| Workers Get Right to Pock Own MD for Health Testing |
John Deverell |
| No Tests CMA Says |
— |
| Doctors' Group Wants All Party Leaders to Outline Plans for Ending Extra-Billing |
— |
| Media Omit AIDS Facts |
Gkenn Wheeler |
| Don't Punish the Sick with Deterrent Fees |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Editorial |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Meeting on MRG Directions |
Ulli Diemer |
| Announcements |
— |
| Is Ontario Now Ready for H?O's? |
Robert Frankford |
| OCAC Response to the Proposed Women's Health Centres |
Catherine Oliver |
| Health Promotion & Pesticides the Nicaraguan Strategy |
Donald Cole and Merri Weiger |
| Free Trade - It's Effect Upon Women, the Health Care System and the Arms Industry |
— |
| High Price of Health |
— |
| Compulsory Obstetric Interventions |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Resolutions for Spring General Meeting |
— |
| The Fetal Rights Debate |
Bob Kellermann |
| Abortion and the Law: What Now? |
Nikki Colodny |
| Marlboro Cowboy Rides Again in the East |
Jack Micay |
| Impressions of January 29th |
— |
| AIDS and Medical Confidentiality |
— |
| Refusal to Treat AIDS and HIV Positive Patients |
— |
| Drugs and AIDS |
Denise Grady |
| The Price of Treating AIDS |
Joel Lexchin |
| Insurance Firms Breaking Law |
Joan Breckenridge |
| Will Ontario Meet Obligations in AIDS Fight? |
Philip Berger |
| Doctor Calls Education Programs Inadequate |
Lila Sarick |
| Doctors Opposing the Use of Placebo in Test of AIDS Drug |
Lillian Newberry |
| Doctors Continue to Extra-Bill |
Matt Maychak |
| News Digest |
Ulli Diemer |
| "Asylum": A Film Review |
Bob James |
| Announcements |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Healthy Communities: Canadian Project |
Trevor Hancock |
| The Alberta Nurses Strike |
Trudy Richardson |
| MRG Spring General Meeting Summary |
Ulli Diemer |
| Steering Committee Report |
— |
| Letter on AIDS Education and Care |
Philip Berger |
| Information Sheets for Immunization |
Robert James |
| Lawyers for Tobacco Firms Reconnoiter at Trial |
Morton Mintz |
| Tobacco Companies Mount Major Legal Effort in Trial |
Morton Mintz |
| Setting a Fairer Price for Medicare |
Judith Feder & Jack Hadley |
| Controversial Program Would Withold Treatment from Half of the 300 Patients |
— |
| Good Medicine, Better Business |
Glen Kramon |
| Industry Helped at Expense of Research, Student Group Says |
Margaret Polanyi |
| Scholar Stresses Home AIDS Care |
Ann Silversides |
| Accord Viewed as Near on Medicare Bill |
Martin Tolchin |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Fall General Meeting |
— |
| Report on the IV International Conference on AIDS |
Philip Berger |
| The National Health Service: Part I |
— |
| The Medical Reform Group of Ontario, A Study of a Political Interest Group |
Don Woodside |
| "Healthy MRG 1989" |
Don Woodside |
| Announcements |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Questions and Themes for the General Meeting |
Fred Freedman |
| Steering Committee Report Fall 1988 |
Don Woodside |
| Health Focus Group on CHOs |
Bob Frankford |
| Drug Use in Zimbabwe and Lesotho |
Norman Nyazema |
| Announcements |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| The MRG and Community Clinics |
Bob James |
| MRG Fall General Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| MRG Statement on Free Trade |
— |
| Health Professions on Legislation Review Update |
— |
| The Children of the Siege |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Prescribing In Canada: A Review of the Literature |
Joel Lexchin |
| The Psychiatric Care of Detainees |
— |
| Could Free-Trade Deal Lead to Bottom-Line Medicine? |
Jack Micay |
| Legalize Midwifery, Group Urge |
— |
| Epp is Criticized for Veto of Research Using Fetuses |
Dorothy Lipovenko |
| Soaring Health Costs are About to Torpedo U.S. Corporate Profits |
Louis Rukeyser |
| Drug Patent Under Opposition Fire |
Janice Turner |
| Clinics Providing 'Front-Line Medicine' |
Ann Silversides |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Introduction to this issue |
– |
| Resource Allocation in Health and Health Care |
– |
| Under-Funding or Resource Allocation? |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Medical Malpractice and Redress of Grievances by Law |
– |
| The Review of Liability and Compensation Issues in Health Care |
J.R.S. Prichard |
| Pushing pills: who's to blame for so much poor prescribing? |
Joel Lexchin |
| MDs using Squibb drug in study receive computers for office use |
– |
| Drug advertising’s bitter pill |
Jack Micay |
| Musicians’ clinic ready by October |
– |
| Rocky Flats: Death Inc. |
– |
| Crisis in the labour room |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Spring meeting to focus on resource allocation |
– |
| Steering Committee report |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Proposed resolution: Resource allocation in health and health care |
– |
| Community health clinics: a reply to Bob James |
Frances Kilbertus |
| Review: “Controlling Health Expenditures: The Canadian Reality” |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| News and Views with a Personal Slant |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| MRG meets with Health Minister Caplan and Deputy Minister Barkin |
Joel Lexchin |
| Comments on Malpractice |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Proposed Resolution: Medical Liability and Compensation |
Haresh Kirpalani & Don Woodside |
| Malpractice Insurance: Is There a Better Way? |
Joel Lexchin |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Is anyone reading the fine print? |
Joel Lexchin |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Schwartz Dynamite? |
Don Woodside |
| Comments on the Schwartz Commission |
Bob James |
| Resource Allocation in the Health System |
Michael Rachlis |
| Re-Allocating Resources for Health |
— |
| A National Health Program for U.S.? |
Robert Frankford |
| Book Review: "Second Opinion" |
Fred Freedman |
| Book Review: Worse than the Disease |
Robert Frankford |
| Radical Deficit Cutting |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Issue #67 |
August - September, 1989 |
Vol. 9, No. 4 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Community Health Centres: Another View |
Jamie Uhrig |
| Fall meeting to feature proposed changes to Health Professions Act |
– |
| Health Care Cutbacks at McMaster University |
Gord Guyatt |
| Issues in Home Care |
Bob James |
| Letter to Elinor Caplan on Home Care |
Bob James for MRG Steering Committee |
| Psychiatric Drugs: Letter from Phoenix Rising |
Phoenix Rising |
| Reply to Phoenix Rising |
Mimi Divinsky for MRG Steering Committee |
| Ontario plan transfers adults from institutions to group homes |
– |
| What's Sauce for the Goose is not Sauce for the Gander |
– |
| Issue #68 |
October, 1989 |
Vol. 9, No. 5 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Agenda: October MRG Meeting |
– |
| Update on Occupational Health Issues |
Susan Stock |
| Impossible Choices |
– |
| Proposed Resolution: Funding for Effective but Expensive Interventions |
Resource Allocation Working Group |
| Proposed Resolution: Closing & Building New Hospital Beds |
Resource Allocation Working Group |
| Proposed Resolution: Capping Health Care Expenditures |
Resource Allocation Working Group |
| Proposed Resolution: A Democratic Forum for Decision-making |
Resource Allocation Working Group |
| Book Review: Jim: A life with AIDS |
Susan Inwood |
| Book Review: Health Care in Canada |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Corporate-funded research may be hazardous to your health |
Kathleen Hart |
| Funds end threatens information centre on health and safety |
Wilfred List |
| Health Care for All: With Limits |
Brian Johnston |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Fall Meeting: Resource Allocation Provokes Vigorous Debate |
– |
| Comprehensive Health Organizations and Resource Allocation |
Bob Frankford |
| The New Health Professions Legislation scrutinized |
– |
| Practical Ways to Provide Health Care to Homeless People |
Dilin Baker, Street Health |
| What the MRG Said About the Independent Health Facilities Act |
– |
| The American disaster |
Gord Guyatt |
| Canada does well at controlling health costs |
Gord Guyatt |
| Not bad – for a start |
Joel Lexchin |
| The doctor’s part in community health |
Bob Frankford |
| News briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Let’s plug the gaps in Ottawa's drug safety laws |
Joel Lexchin |
| Round the world |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Directions, Media Strategy, and Resource Allocation Policies to be General Meeting Themes |
— |
| The MRG Dilemma |
Ralph W. Sutherland |
| A Glut of Doctors |
Don Woodside |
| What Kind of Primary Care Model? |
Bob James |
| What’s Wrong With Primary Care (and What Can We Do About it?) |
Brian Hutchison |
| Inside HMOs - From the USA |
Steffie Woolhandler |
| MRG Submission on ‘Fetal Rights’ |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Review: Inside Ciba-Geigy |
Olle Hansson |
| My Summer Vacation |
Clayton Ruby |
| B.C. Heart Patients Await News on Bid to Clear Surgery Backlog |
Deborah Wilson |
| The Spectre of Two-Tier Medicare |
Christie Wilson |
| Ontario MDs Alarmed by Panel's Proposal for Cap on Medicare |
Christie McLaren |
| Study Question Need for Clinics |
Geoffrey York |
| Group Urges Review of Costly Medical Technologies |
Christie McLaren |
| Health Plans Found to Cut Hospital Costs |
Joan Breckenridge |
| MDs Consider Limiting Tests for Dementia |
Paul Taylor |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Announcements |
— |
| Shortage of Nurses in Parts of Canada Stirs New Look at Pay |
Christie McLaren |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| "Warning: Poverty is Hazardous to your Health" |
Havi Echenberg |
| Poverty - What's Being Done About It? |
Janet Mosher |
| SARC Update |
Cathy Crowe |
| Facts and Fallacies - Resource Allocation |
H. Kirpalani and A. Oxman |
| The MRG Health Policy Menu |
Ralph W. Sutherland |
| How You Responded to the Questionnaire |
— |
| Medical Reform Group of Ontario General Meeting Minutes |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Medical Reform Group Press Release Regarding Provincial Elections |
— |
| Questionnaire Responses from Progressive Conservative and New Democratic Parties |
— |
| Primary Care |
— |
| Steering Committee Report August 1900 |
— |
| MRGers Meet With Ontario Medical Association Representatives |
— |
| Speaking Up for the OMA |
Bob Frankford |
| The OMA and the MRG |
Fred Freedman |
| MRG's Relationship to OMA |
Barbara Lent |
| Letter on Administrative Fees |
— |
| What the American Medical Press is Saying: Recent News from the NEJM |
Gord Guyatt |
| Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals in Western Canada |
Sue Inwood |
| Letter on Community Care |
Eugene Vayda |
| The Medical Reform Group of Ontario Searches for Purpose |
Lynne Cohen |
| Letter to CMA Journal: Our Principles are Still a Beacon |
— |
| Life After Extrabilling: A Brief Comment |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Fall Meeting Looks at Primary Care |
— |
| The Medical Reform Group under an NDP government |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Representatives Meet With Ontario's New Health Minister |
John W. Frank |
| Lively Discussion of Life Under NDP Government |
Ulli Diemer |
| Abortion Law Policy |
Mimi Divinsky |
| The MRG and the Crisis in American Health Care |
Gord Guyatt |
| Book Review: Privatization of Health Care: The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes |
Jane Aronson |
| Is Access to Health Care an Issue for MRG Members? |
Dilin Baker, Kathy Jardill, Cathy Crowe |
| MRG Debated in Canadian Medical Association Journal |
— |
| Primary Care, NDP Government Main Topic at MRG General Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| “The Third Principle” focus of MRG Spring General Meeting |
– |
| Democratizing the health care system: A proposal for discussion |
Resource Allocation Group |
| Summary of presentation to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, Social Affairs, Seniors, and the Status of Women |
Michael Rachlis |
| Health Care Reform: Issues for the 1990s |
– |
| Steering Committee Activities |
– |
| Payment of Physicians |
Michael Rachlis |
| About Chain letters, memberships, and surveys |
– |
| Gulf statement called undemocratic |
Fred Freedman |
| Meet aggression with force |
Fred Freedman |
| Letter motivated by desire to avert war |
MRG Steering Committee |
| Necessary to fight for peace |
Brian Mulroney |
| Journal review |
Gord Guyatt |
| The view from Queen's Park |
Bob Frankford |
| Foreign medical graduates seek recognition |
– |
| Request for assistance on psychiatric drugs/withdrawal |
Don Weitz |
| The MRG and the State of Maine |
Gord Guyatt |
| Groups join to fight for medicare |
– |
| Health-care crisis forecast in Mass. |
– |
| Universal health care advocates look to Canada |
– |
| Court overturns OHIP billing decision |
– |
| Canadian Abortion Rights Action League present Dr. Etienne Baulieu |
– |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Cap On High Billers is a Step in the Right Direction |
— |
| Patented Medicines Review Board |
Joel Lexchin |
| College Looks at Physicians' Relationship to Pharmaceutical Industry |
Gord Guyatt |
| Relationship Between Health Science Faculties and the Canadian Pharmaceutical Industry |
George D. Sweeney |
| Medical Residency Policy Concerning the Pharmaceutical Industry |
Gord Guyatt |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Meeting Explores Ideas for Democratizing Health Care |
Ulli Diemer |
| Action for U.S. Health Plan Continues |
Gord Guyatt |
| No Pot of Gold at the End of U.S. Rainbow, Doctors Warned |
— |
| Black Masks Against Blue Cross |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Canadian-Style Health Care More Cost Effective |
— |
| More Questions than Answers... (sigh!) |
Joel Lexchin |
| Steering Committee Activities |
Ulli Diemer |
| The MRG and the OMA |
Fred Freedman |
| Thoughts and Opinions on the OMA |
— |
| Stop the War Against Women |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG 'David' Vows Continued Alternative to OMA 'Goliath' |
Ulli Diemer |
| MRG Warns Lankin on Indiscriminate Cost-Cutting |
— |
| Moves Afoot to Re-Create an Ontario Health Coalition |
— |
| Letter to Health Minister |
— |
| Reflection on Speaking Tour in the United States |
Gord Guyatt |
| MRG in the USA |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Drug Licensing Changes May Be Imminent |
— |
| Mothers’ Milk Threatened By Free Trade Pact |
— |
| User Fees Lead to Two-Tiered Health Care |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Time to Look at Medical Resource Management |
— |
| Concern About Bill 135 |
E.E. Daniel, Ph.D. |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| OMA Debated at Fall Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| Excellence in Medical Care Award |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Spring Meetings to Look at the Future of Medicare in Britain and Ontario |
— |
| Procedures May Be Cut from OHIP |
— |
| Who Should Decide and How Should Decisions Be Made |
— |
| MRG Comments On Policy Statements By Health Minister |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Orser Commission Report Looks at Health Planning in South Western Ontario |
Fran Scott |
| Midwifery in Ontario |
Karyn J Kaufman RN |
| Organizational Changes in the Ministry of Health |
— |
| Patients Without Health Cards Refused Service |
— |
| Efficiency and Resource Allocation |
Gord Guyatt |
| Administrative Costs in Health Care in Canada and the USA |
Gord Guyatt |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Medicare is in Danger: What We Can Do to Save It |
— |
| Future of Medicare On the Line |
— |
| Delisting |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Resource Allocation Questions |
— |
| Proposed Delisting of Procedures |
David Haslam |
| MRG Responds to Proposals to Re-Direct Long-Term Care |
— |
| The National Health Service |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Steering Committee Activities |
— |
| Medical Care in the USA: A Case of Terminal Disease |
Haresh Kirpalani, Gord Guyatt |
| Changing the Last Dinosaur Analyzing the Reform of the National Health Service |
Reg Race |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| The MRG, McMaster University and Direct Billing of Patients |
Gord Guyatt |
| De-Listing Gets Further Examination |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Physician Resource Management: A Debate Which is Crucial to Future of Health Care |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Physician Reimbursement: A Point-by-Point Analysis |
— |
| Fall Meeting to Debate the Alternatives |
— |
| Further Analysis on Payment |
— |
| Family Physicians' Group Looks at Alternate Payment Mechanism |
— |
| Whither HSOs? |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Steering Committee Activities |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Meeting Favours Capitation, Salary Over Fee-For-Service for Primary Care MDs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Medicare Under Attack: Time for a Popular Campaign |
Janet Maher |
| Drug Benefits Plan Undegoes Reform |
Mitch Levine |
| Pharmaceuticals Bill Will Drive Up Costs |
— |
| Patent Greed |
Ruth Scher |
| Canadian Health-Care System Superior to U.S. Model, Group Told |
Adrian Humphreys |
| MRG Debates How MDs Should Be Paid |
Ulli Diemer |
| Attack on Canadian Health Care System Called Very Misleading |
Gordon Guyatt, Haresh Kirpalani |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Drug Benefit Changes Have Consequences For Low-Income Patients |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Science Suports Case for Brand Name Drugs |
John T. Edward |
| Higher Costs for Health Care, Higher Profit for Industry |
Gordon Guyatt |
| USA Today: Organizing for Health Care |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| National Health Care Gets Boost |
Joan M. Mazzolini |
| Renumeration of Physicians: Another Opinion |
J.V. Frei |
| De-Institutionaliation A Noble Concept That is Often Abused |
Stephen Date |
| Take Two Big Doses of Humanity and Called Me in the Morning |
David South |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Ways to save money without compromising quality of care |
MRG Resource Allocation Committee |
| Ontario’s NDP goverment: part of the problem, or part of the solution? |
– |
| MRG: Lapdog of the NDP? |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Pharmacists’ skills wasted |
John Hill |
| Doctors, drug companies still blur guidelines |
Stephen Rauchman |
| McMaster U. sets its own policy for residents |
– |
| Canadian health officials testify in Montpelier on Benefits of Single-Payer System |
– |
| News briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| The Doctors' Dilemmas |
Michael Rachlis |
| Cruelty to Interns |
Vera Tarman |
| PAIRO Condemns NDP Government's "Assault On Freedom to Practice" |
— |
| NDP's Promises Revisited |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Fair Shares |
— |
| Ten Reasons to Oppose NAFTA |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| U.S. Health Care Business Chasing Profits into Canada |
David South |
| Marketing Health Care to Americans? |
Paul Huras |
| Who's Padding the Costs of Health Care? |
Ernie Lightman |
| Doctors Get Off Lightly, MRG Says |
Gord Guyatt |
| Solving Improper OHIP Buildings |
Gordon Guyatt, Haresh Kirpalani |
| Get Active in Health Care Battle, Reform Group Urges |
Craig Sumi |
| Looking at Canada's Health Care: It's 'Poised to Self-Destruct' |
Jerome C. Arnett, Jr. |
| Canada’s Single-Payer Health Care Scheme A Singular Success |
Gordon Guyatt, Haresh Kirpalani, Mimi Divinsky |
| NDP Government Flailed at June Meeting |
Ulli Diemer |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Science Sells Out To Low Bid |
Maude Barlow, David Noble |
| Timely House Call for Health System |
Michael Rachlis |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Drug Reform Mistakes |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Saving Low-Volume Emergency Departments |
Fletcher R.D. |
| Did Doctors Get a Sweet Deal from the Social Construct |
Rosanna Pellizzari, Gord Guyatt |
| Not All Doctors Got Off Lightly |
Bob James |
| NDP Performance Diverges from Principles |
Gord Guyatt |
| What Does Federal Election Mean for Medicare |
Vera Tarman |
| Different Vision of Health Care |
Steve Roedde, Janet McLeod |
| Steering Committee Update |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Bitter Harvest in Vietnam |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Primary Care Alternatives Scrutinized |
Gord Guyatt |
| Practice Guidelines Discussed |
Ulli Diemer |
| Marcel Masse Was Right the First Time |
Bob Frankford |
| Bill 50: Tinkering With the Non-System |
— |
| De-Listing: Flawed Process, Wrong Focus |
— |
| MRG Critical of Proposed Delisting |
Rosana Pellizzari and Mimi Divinsky |
| What Moves a Doctor |
— |
| Bush Visit Protested |
— |
| Prescription Drug Reform: Maybe Universality? |
Bob Frankford |
| CHCs Defended |
Dennise Albrecht |
| CHC Approach Long-Term and Preventative |
Margot Morgan |
| HSOs Cost-Efficient and Progressive |
Fred Freedman |
| Community Health Centres Not the Enemy |
Rosana Pelizzari |
| On Liberals, Tories, and NPD - All Birds of a Feather |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Spring Meeting Goes Multi-National |
— |
| The Struggle for National Health Insurance in the U.S. |
Dr. Quentin Young |
| Julian Tudor Hart |
Bob Frankford |
| Canadian Health Coalition Initiates Process to Define Principles for Health Care Reform |
Stephen Leary |
| Draft Proposals Only: Principles for Health Care Reform |
— |
| HSOs and CHCs: Divide and Conquer? |
Bob James |
| Budget Consultation with Ontario’s Treasurer |
Gordon Guyatt |
| CMA's 'Anti-Doctor Bias' Angers Some Doctors |
Matt Borsellino |
| Academic Medicine and Pharmaceutical Industry: A Cautinary Tale |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Doctors and Drug Companies in France |
Jean-Michel Normand |
| Reform of Canada’s Primary Health Care System |
John Forster, Walter Rosser, Maggie Grogan |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Holdback Formula Penalizes Low Billers, MRG Says |
— |
| Giving Birth to Propaganda |
Haresh Kirpalani, Rosana Pelizzari |
| The Political Use of Patients |
— |
| Welcome Nurse Practitioners |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Questionable Tactics on Nurse Practioner Use |
Alba Mitchell |
| 2% Billing Holdback Undemocratic: MDs |
Suzanne Morrison |
| Costly Drugs Overprescribed, Study Finds |
Rod Mickleburgh |
| A Triangular Concept of the Ethics of Health Care Delivery: Access, Autonomy, and Cost Containment |
Jason J S Barton |
| New Challenges for Vietnam |
Jamie Uhrig |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Fall General Meetings Asks: What Does “Medically Necessary” Mean? |
Ulli Diemer |
| User Fees Hurt Sick, Poor, MRG Says |
— |
| Getting to the Core of Comprehensiveness |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| How Should We Decide Where Resources Should Go? |
— |
| More Traffic Means Less Health |
James Munro |
| Health Care and Nafta |
Cindy Wiggins |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| NAFTA and De-Insurance |
— |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Support for Nurse Practitioners as Members of Health Care Team |
— |
| Clawback Magnifies Fee-For-Service Distortions |
— |
| Can We Define "Medical Necessity"? Do We Want To? |
— |
| Quicker Care is Better Care |
Gordon Guyatt, Murray Enkin |
| Eight Alberta Horror Stories |
— |
| The Alberta Experiment |
Kathleen Connors |
| The MRG and Health Care Reform in the United States |
Gordon Guyatt |
| California Dreaming: A Fall Reflection from an American Health Care Reformer |
Clifford Rosen |
| Galloping Toward Oligopoly: Giant H.M.O. or Giant H.M.O. 'B'? |
Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein |
| Forum on Primary Health Reform |
— |
| Completely Healthy, Utterly Unattainable? |
Simon Dyson |
| Cold Hearts and Coronaries |
Sonja Hunt |
| Leave Well-Being Alone |
David Seedhouse |
| General Meeting Tackles "Medical Necessity" |
Ulli Diemer |
| News Briefs |
Ulli Diemer |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| OMA Suspends Negotiations With the Government: Good Riddance |
— |
| Ontario Medical Association's "Social Contract Days" Penalize Patients |
— |
| Sparks Fly Call to Lobby Patients |
— |
| Family Physicians Group Encourages Unethical Behaviour in Its Members |
— |
| College of Family Physicians Responds to MRG Media Release |
L. Cheryl Katz |
| Doctor-Patient Relationship Shouldn't Be Used for Politicking |
Mimi Divinsky, Gord Guyatt, Rosana Pellizzari |
| GPs Urged to Fight Nursing Plan |
Jane Coutts |
| Incorporation for Ontario Physicians |
— |
| Public Health Services are Essential Services |
— |
| Aberman, Rachlis Face Off Over Ontario Health-Care Funding |
Pat Rich |
| Maintain the Principles of Equal Access Regardless of Income |
— |
| Ensuring a Healthy Canada: Where Should the Money Come From? |
— |
| Federal Budget Makes Tragic Choices for Canada's Future |
John Loxley |
| New Zealand Government Rations Life and Death With Attack on Health Care |
Felicity Coggan |
| Warning: This Budget is Dangerous to Your Health |
— |
| Will the Liberal Government Betray Medicare? |
— |
| The Eugenics of Health Care in the U.S. |
Johnny Townshend |
| Privatization Not the Answer |
Bob Frankford |
| Draft Policy on Insured Services |
— |
| Ten Steps to Better Health in Canada |
Canadian Health Coalition |
| When Health Becomes a Weapon |
Melissa Jameson |
| Medicare Under the Knife |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Transitions |
– |
| The Common Sense Revolution |
Ian Scott |
| The Determinants of Health: How can we pay for them? |
Ian Scott |
| Values Gap |
– |
| Ontario Medical Association’s advocacy of Privatization betrays medicare |
– |
| Strategic planning for the Medical Reform Group |
– |
| Ontario should consider B.C.’s cost-saving drug plan |
– |
| Privatizing Health Care: No Debate Needed |
– |
| A Capitation-based Primary Health Care System: A Major Step Forward |
– |
| Medical Reform Group Challenges Marleau to Stand Firm on Medicare |
– |
| Medicare works best if affluent are forced to defend it |
Philip Berger |
| The doctor won’t see you now |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Why doctors flirt with giving medicare the kiss-off |
Lisa Priest |
| Ten Reasons to be concerned about Block Funding |
– |
| Welfare fightback |
– |
| An experience not to be missed |
Bob Frankford |
| Canadian Council on National Issues |
Ian Scott |
| Linda McQuaig’s Shooting the Hippo |
Ian Scott |
| Unemployment may kill, doctors say |
– |
| OHA under scrutiny over Blue Cross sale |
– |
| PNHP broadens its agenda |
Gordon Schiff |
| Telling the Truth About Medicare |
Diane Lardie |
| Doctors check national pulse |
Jane Coutts |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Universality: Condition Critical |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Semi-Annual General Meeting November 18th |
— |
| Emmet Hall Dies |
— |
| Medical Reform Welcomes Letters |
— |
| Doctors Split on Capitation Alternative |
— |
| Tax Cuts to Ride on Back of Poor and Sick |
— |
| A Warning for Mike Harris |
— |
| Harris' Budget Disaster for Ontario's Health |
— |
| Omnibus a Prelude to US Style Health Care |
— |
| Letter Sent to Premier Mike Harris |
— |
| Letter Send to Calgary Laundry Workers |
— |
| MDs, Patients Differ on Health Views |
Jane Coutts |
| Hospitals Preferred Over Tax Relief: OHA Plans to Show Survey Findings to Tory Government Bent on Restraint |
Michael Grange |
| More Patient Education is Urged |
Robin Harvey |
| Hamilton May Be Off Limits to New Doctors |
Suzanne Morrison |
| Critique of Alberta Medical Association Proposal Fee for Comprehensive Care |
Michael Rachlis |
| Ontario HSO Program: A Capitation Island in a Fee-For Service Sea |
Bob James |
| Southern Exposure: Managing Patients in a Managed Care Environment |
Clifford Rosen |
| Dial a Doctor: Dialing for Dollars |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Jake's Life - A Film by Laura Sky |
— |
| Issue #97 |
March 1996 |
Vol. 15, No. 4 |
| Issue #98 |
June 1996 |
Vol. 16, No. 1 |
| Issue #99 - 100 |
September 1996 |
Volume 16, No. 2-3 |
| Issue #101 |
December 1996 |
Volume 16, No. 4 |
| Issue #102 |
March 1997 |
Volume 16, No. 4 |
| Issue #103 |
June 1997 |
Volume 17, No. 1 |
| Issue #104 |
— |
Volume 17, No. 2 |
| Issue #105 |
— |
Volume 17, No. 3 |
| Issue #106 |
March 1998 |
Volume 17, No. 4 |
| Issue #107 |
June 1998 |
Volume 18, No. 1 |
| Issue #108 |
September 1998 |
Volume 18, No. 2 |
| Issue #109 |
— |
Volume 18, No. 3 |
| Issue #110 |
— |
Volume 18, No. 4 |
| Issue #111 |
— |
Volume 19, No. 1 |
| Issue #112 |
September 1999 |
Volume 19, No. 2 |
| Issue #113 |
January 2000 |
Volume 19, No. 3-4 |
| Issue #114 |
April 2000 |
Volume 20, No. 1 |
| Issue #115 |
— |
Volume 20, No. 2 |
| Issue #116 |
— |
Volume 20, No. 3 |
| Issue #117 |
— |
Volume 20, No. 4 |
| Issue #118 |
— |
Volume 21, No. 1 |
| Issue #119 |
— |
Volume 21, No. 2 |
| Issue #120 |
— |
Volume 21, No. 3 |
| Issue #121 |
— |
Volume 21, No. 4 |
| Issue #122 |
— |
Volume 22, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Apocalypse No, The Myth of Againg and a Health Care Crisis |
Gordon Guyatt |
| A Small but Important Difference |
— |
| Canadian "Medicare Refugee Myth" Debunked in Major US Study |
Charlotte Gray |
| Ontario Needs Another Urgent Government Policy Reversal |
— |
| Premiers Call for New Funding Partnership for Health Care for Canadians |
— |
| New Study by the Conference Board on Fiscal Imbalance in Canada |
— |
| Canada's Health Ministers Progress on Health Care Renewal and Healthy Living |
— |
| Shelter from the Storm |
— |
| Update on Coalition Building in Saskatoon |
— |
| Toronto Disaster Relief Committee Needs Your Support |
— |
| Campbell Cuts Threaten Quality of Care in British Columbia |
— |
| Yuppie Scans Would Allow Queue-Jumping |
— |
| Yuppie Scan Open Door to Us For-Profit Care |
— |
| Tough Issues for Romanow Commission |
— |
| Consumer Choice |
— |
| Your Money and/or Your Life |
— |
| Developing Healthy Prescribing Habits in Young Doctors |
— |
| Mary Robinson: A Woman of Courage |
— |
| Canada Strengthens Its Response to the Rich-Poor Gap in Global Health Research |
Vic Neufeld |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Investor Owned Private For Profit Health Care Facilities Are To Die For |
PJ Devereaux |
| Kirby Wrong to Dismiss Our Findings |
Philip Devereaux and Gordon Guyatt |
| Kirby Report: Three (or more) Steps Forward, One Step Back |
— |
| Trade Deals Spell Danger for Canadian Health Care |
— |
| The Romanow Report's Funding Plans |
Gordon Guyatt |
| The Romanow Commission: Cautious Steps in the Right Direction |
Michael Rachlis |
| Romanow on Primary Care: The Same Ol'? |
Ted Haines |
| Was Homecare A Hit or A Miss for Romanow? |
— |
| The Pharmacare Promise |
— |
| Romanow Gets An A |
— |
| 2002 Fall Members Meeting |
— |
| Message to Manley: The Cupboard Isn't Bare |
Armine Yalnizyan |
| Beyond Ronamow: Why $3.5 Billion is Not Enough |
— |
| Accountability: Why Strings Need to be Attached to Health Care Dollars |
— |
| Auditor's Report Wake-Up Call for Lax Liberals |
— |
| Tories Ignore Local Input on Primary Care Reform |
— |
| Harper or Romanow, Who's on the Real Dinosaur? |
— |
| Public Health Care is the Choice of Big Business |
— |
| Lots of Reasons to Think Twice About Cancer Screening |
— |
| New May Not Be Better When It Comes to Drugs |
— |
| Drug Firms' Power a Challenge for Canadian Pharmacare |
— |
| The Doha Declaration and Access to Drugs |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Next Steps on Romanow |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| PJ's Very Excellent Adventure |
Janet Maher |
| Critique of the NDP Health Platform |
Gordon Guyatt |
| The Liberals: Style or Substance |
Ted Haines |
| Let Ontarians Do the Math |
Janet Maher |
| Americans Study Canada: The AMSA Comparative Health Policy Tour |
Gary Bioch |
| Canada's Drug Regulators - Working For You or for the Industry? |
— |
| Want to Run a For-Profit MRI: Donate to Provincial Tories |
— |
| Federal Government Showing the Right Stuff |
— |
| Principles and Policy Statements of the Medical Reform Group |
— |
| Why Leave the MRG? And Why Re-Join the MRG? |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Tories Target Hospital Audits, Ignore Their Own |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Moving Forward On Public Health in Canada: Spring Members Meeting |
— |
| More Spendings Doesn't Always Mean Better Health Care |
— |
| Is Medicalization a Threat to Health? |
— |
| How to Keep a Healthy State of Mind |
— |
| Getting High Quality Information on What's Going on in Iraq |
— |
| The Costs of Medical School: Are Rising Tuition Fees Going to Affect Health Care Delivery? |
Irfan Dhalia, Jeff Kwong and Ian Johnson |
| A Medical Career: Soon to be: "The Inaccessible Dream" |
— |
| An Open Letter to First Ministers of Health |
— |
| Solution to Federal-Provincial Bickering Over Health |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Can an Ontario Election Be Good for Our Health? |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| McLellan Public Health Announcement |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Canada Health Act on Trial |
Steven Shrybman |
| Do Not Be Deterred by the Resistance of the Provinces |
— |
| Politicians Benefit Personally from Supporting Investor-Owned For-Profit Care |
— |
| Evidence-Based Medicine is Changing Medical Practice |
— |
| Bad News for Ontarians: Boutique Medicine Arrives in Toronto |
— |
| Letters of Inquiry to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario |
— |
| Ontario's Private For-Profit MRI and CT Scanners: Saviour or Scourge? |
Bradley MacIntosh and Ted Haines |
| Explaining Mysterious Government Policy |
— |
| Brampton's P3 Hospital: What the Candidates Have to Say |
Bradley MacIntosh |
| Medical Necessity and Yuppie Scans |
— |
| Poaching by Private, For-Profit MRI Clinics Threatens Hospital Care |
— |
| New Research and Campaign News from Physicians for a National Health Program |
— |
| Equity VS. Equality: MRG Principles Go Under the Knife |
Gary Bloch |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Romanow Report Remains Unfulfilled Promise |
Gordon Guyatt |
| MRG Prescription Drugs Brief: A Summary |
Bradley MacIntosh |
| Brief to House of Commons Standing Committee on Health: Executive Summary |
Joel Lexchin |
| Boutique Medicine |
Irfan Dhalia |
| Holding the New Ontario Government Accountable for Its Promises |
— |
| Keeping the Promise |
— |
| P3S Are Not the Only For Profit Health Care Services We Need to Guard Against |
— |
| Funding Hospital Infrastructure: Why P3S Don't Work, and What Will Summary |
— |
| Profits from Pain: A Story of Health Care in the U.S. - Fall Members Meeting |
— |
| Toronto Student Chapter Launches |
— |
| National Health Council: The On-Going Saga |
— |
| Canada Health Council Plan a Disaster, Must Change |
— |
| Second Letter to Health Minister McLellan on Health Council September 29, 2003 |
— |
| Citizen Engagement |
Janet Maher |
| Will the Health Care Watchdog Have Teeth |
— |
| Advocating National Health Council to the Provinces |
— |
| Street Nurse Cathy Crowe Honoured in Amsterdam |
— |
| Issue #129 |
Spring, 2004 |
Vol. 23, No. 4 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Health and Human Rights |
Ahmed Bayoumi |
| A Question of Priorities |
Rachelle Sender |
| Health-care wait is worth it |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Intervening on Ontario Bill 8 |
— |
| Brief to the Justice Committee on Justice and Social Policy on Bill 8 |
MRG Brief |
| MRG student chapter is born |
Aaron Rostas |
| University of Toronto tuition fee rally |
Philip Berger & Ahmed Bayoumi |
| Prescription for Excellence: How innovation is saving Canada’s health care system |
Michael Rachlis |
| Industry and health a deadly mix |
— |
| CHC Urgent Action Alert |
— |
| Two-tier medicine threatens equitable health care delivery |
— |
| Canadian Health Coalition calls for federal moratorium on public-private partnerships |
Canadian Health Coalition |
| Health Ministry sit-in first step in escalating campaign to stop the private hospitals |
Ontario Health Coalition |
| Issue #130 |
Summer, 2004 |
Vol. 24, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Revisiting the 2004 Ontario Liberal budget |
Brad MacIntosh |
| Simple, Appealing, and Wrong |
Gord Guyatt |
| Supreme Court delays decision in important Medicare case |
Brad MacIntosh |
| PFI’s: Implications for P3s in Canada |
Ted Haines |
| No good reason to allow for-profit independent health facilities |
Irfan Dhalla |
| The New Red Book: Required Reading |
Yves Talbot |
Merchants in the Temple?
Implications of the NAFTA and GATS for Canada’s Health Care System |
— |
| Drug makers deceive doctors |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Attack provinces to save medicare |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Why try to fix what is not broken? |
— |
| Issue #131 |
Fall, 2004 |
Vol. 24, No. 2 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
Your money and your life:
The consequences of investor-owned private for-profit health care delivery |
P.J. Devereaux |
| MRG to Premiers: Abandon the Firewall |
MRG media release |
| Public funding, not for-profit delivery: Help for Ujjal Dosanjh |
MRG media release |
| The Premiers' annual theatrical performance: Consensus masks confusion |
Michael Rachlis |
| Are there hard data on waiting lists? |
— |
| MRG urges College of Physicians and Surgeons to eliminate boutique medicine |
Irfan Dhalla |
| Pharmacare in the public interest |
Canadian Health Coalition |
| Can we get national Pharmacare now? |
Joel Lexchin |
| Is there a logic to delisting? |
Ahmed Bayoumi |
| Public health and women’s reproductive health rights |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| New book on social determinants of health |
— |
| All our children |
Anne Mullens |
| Cathy Crowe: Progress Report |
Cathy Crowe |
| “Why should I trust you?” |
— |
| Issue #132 |
Winter, 2005 |
Vol. 24, No. 3 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Block fees undermine accessibility to health care: Doctors’ group calls on government to ban patient charges |
Irfan Dhalla and Gordon Guyatt |
| College of Physicians and Surgeons should vote down policy permitting patient charges |
MRG media release |
| Nearsighted physicians reject deal with government |
MRG media release |
| Smitherman right to play tough with doctors |
MRG media release |
| Serious limitations in health care deal |
MRG media release |
| A new Liberal version of primary health care |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Recruitment call: sexual and reproductive health |
— |
| Steering Committee 2004 - 2005 |
— |
| Premiers should not give up on Pharmacare |
MRG media release |
| How to build a national Pharmacare program |
Brad MacIntosh |
| Experts discuss national Pharmacare: Reports of Fall 2004 Members’ Meeting |
— |
| The Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme: A Universal Scheme |
Doctors Reform Society of Australia |
| Introducing Medicare’s Newest Child: National Pharmacare |
Brad MacIntosh |
| Message to Premiers on the Eve of Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meetings |
Rosana Pellizzari for MRG |
| Threats to Academic Freedom should worry public |
MRG media release |
| Medicare criticisms simplistic |
Gordon Guyatt |
| HMOs drive up U.S. health costs |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Health crisis in Nigeria |
Anthony Okwuosah |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| What Can We Learn From The Primary Care Reform Process in Latin America? |
— |
| Getting Beyond the Spin: Federal Budget 2005 and What It Means for Addressing the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor |
Janet Maher |
| Block Fees and Bill 8 |
— |
| Canada Health Council Report: Governments, Please Listen, and Respond |
— |
| Ontario Liberals Shortchanging Health Care |
— |
| For-Profit Nursing Homes Short-Change Patients |
— |
| Narrow Self-Interest Driving Doctors to Question OMA Deal |
— |
| What are Ihins and What Will They Mean to Toronto Health Organizations |
— |
| Money Well Spent |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Prescription for Excellence: Some Ideas Whose Time Has Come |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Seeking Accountability on Canada Health Act Violations |
— |
| Canada Global Health Initiative: Where are the Women? |
Cathy Nangini |
| Reproductive Health Working Group to Meet |
— |
| Camping in Nathan Phillips Square |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Personal Attack, Political Weapon |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Boutique Medicine, Block Fees and Other Strategies to Implement Two Tier Medicine by Stealth: Update on the Ontario Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act |
Janet Maher, Brad MacIntosh |
| Home Free? Home-Bound? Or Homeless? Putting Home Care Back on the National Agenda |
John Maher |
| Ontario Health Coalition Calls for Vigilance on Caplan |
— |
| Supreme Court Throws a Curve on Chaoulli |
— |
| Canadian Health Coalition Action Alert on Chaoulli Decision |
— |
| Chaoulli Decision Protects Only Those Who Can Pay |
— |
| Student MRG Health Initiative: Where is Canada? |
Cathy Nangini and Brad MacIntosh |
| Working Group on Reproductive and Sexual Health |
Janet Maher |
| The Plan B Fiasco: How Canada Has Made Emergency Cantraception Harder to Get |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MDs' Group Should Stand Firmly By Medicare: Canada's Doctors Have Chance To Let Us Know If They Stand For Equal Treatment For All |
Irfan Dhalia |
| The Canadian Medical Association and Private Care |
— |
| A Friendly Debate on the Chaoulli Decision |
— |
| Klein Way the Wrong Way, Doctors Say |
— |
| Ideology Trumps Evidence |
— |
| CMA President Betrays Canadians |
— |
| A Cautinary Tale: Britain's Experience with Private Health Care |
— |
| Which Doctors Want Private Health Care? |
— |
| Hamilton Health Coalition Plans for Plebiscite on For-Profit Health Care |
— |
| Dr. Mimi Divinsky Awarded the Norman Bethune Medal (1st Class)! |
— |
| Heroes in the Special Diet Campaign |
Janet Maher |
| Making Advocates of Physicians |
— |
| Some Resources for the Raise the Rates Campaign |
Janet Maher |
| Medical Reform Group Joins the Hunger Campaign |
— |
| The City Replies to the First Letter |
— |
| Another Letter to the City of Toronto |
— |
| Toronto Health Care Provides Enumerate Front Line Concerns With City Rule Changes |
— |
| City of Toronto Councillor Mihevc Responds to Renewed Queries: Same Answers for Different Questions |
— |
| The Experience of a Lifetime |
— |
| MRG Joins Canadian Women's Health Network To Improve Access to Emergency Contraception: Update on Plan B |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Issue #136 |
— |
Vol. 25, No. 3 |
| Issue #137 |
Spring - Summer, 2006 |
Vol. 25, No. 4; Vol. 26, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Ontario Budget 2006 - No Relief for the Poorest Despite Improved Revenue Picture |
Janet Maher |
| Advocates Want Province to Address the Social Deficit Too |
— |
| The CMA Supports Public Health Care System - Or Does It? |
Norman Kalant |
| Canadian Doctors for Medicare |
Karen Troliope Kumar |
| Student Petition Attracts 1,000 Signers |
Janet Maher |
| Say It Again - No to P3S |
— |
| Medical Writers Threaten Boycott of CMA Editors' Dismissals Explained |
— |
| MRG vs. Big Pharma. Ontario's Bill 102 |
Janet Maher |
| Neglected Disease Research and Development |
— |
| Emergency Contraception Update |
— |
| National Pharmacare Strategy |
Janet Maher |
| Ontario's Local Health Integration Networks - Rearranging the Desk Chairs? |
Karen Troliope Kumar |
| Money and Medicine: In For-Profit Health Care, Investors Have No Contact With Parents, Profits Leave the Facility and the Incidence of Physician Fraud is Starting |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Medical Reform Group Challenges New Health Minister |
— |
| Mr. Harper, We Will Forgive You If You Drop Your Guaranteed Wait Time Promise |
— |
| MRG Provides Input on Federal Budget |
— |
| Health Providers Against Poverty |
Janet Maher |
| McGuinty Government Forced to Correct Disability Privacy Breach |
— |
| Poverty - An Issue for the OMA? |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Queen's Park Ignoring Looming Health Crisis |
— |
| Special Diet Allowance Action Kit: Fighting Poverty to Improve Health |
— |
| Poverty Leads to a General Increased Risk of Developing Health Problems |
— |
| A Path Wisely Avoided: For-Profit Boutique Clinics and the Road to the Destruction of Medicare |
Natalie Mehra |
| Valuing Health Protection |
— |
| Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| CMA Moves Toward Private Health Care At Annual Meeting |
Irfan Dhalia |
| BC Medical Association Lines Up Behind Two-Tier Advocate - A Discredit to the Profession |
— |
| Message to the CMA: Choose Public Interest, Not Self-Interest |
Gordon Guyatt |
| A Doctor is 'Saddened' by the Choices of his Profession |
— |
| Medical Students Across Canada Speak Out Against Two-Tier Medicine |
Larissa Liontos |
| Medical Students Urge CMA to Support Medicare |
— |
| The Struggle Continues... An Update from Health Providers Against Poverty |
Gary Bloch |
| Ontario Raise the Rates Lobby |
— |
| High Costs and Hard Choices |
— |
| Bill 102 - Big Pharma Wins Again |
Morman Kalant |
| Court Challenge of Direct to Consumer Drug Advertising |
Steven Barrett |
| National Pharmacare Strategy a Hard Sell with Premiers |
— |
| A Status Report From the Premiers' Meeting from BC Government |
— |
| Plus Ca Change - Reflection on 1986 |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Canwest Set to Challenge Ban on DTCA |
Alicia Priest |
| Some Considerations for Today's Progressive Physicians |
Haresh Kirpalani |
| Ontario's Finances in Better Shape than Liberals Let On, Says Ontario Alternative Budget |
— |
| Ontario Must Treat Health Centre Staff Fairly |
Miriam Garfinkle and Sharon Gazeley |
| Ontario Health Coalition Releases Analysis of Bill 140 - Ontario Long Term Care Act |
— |
| Ontario Health Coalition Key Issues - November 25, 2006 |
— |
| Medical Reform Group Lauds Alberta Health Care Turnaround |
— |
| Medical Reform Group Congratulates Harper on Dropping Wait Times Guarantee |
— |
| Two-Tier Health Clinic Opening in Kingston Today Contravenes Law: Ontario Health Coalition Calls On Ministry to Take Action |
— |
| Ontario Health Coalition Honours Devereaux |
— |
| Engaging the Canadian Medical Association on the Public-Private Interface |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Friend, Activist, Advocate, Mentor: Dr. Miriam (Mimi) Divinsky 1953 - 2007 |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Drug Benefit Changes Have Consequences for Low-Income Patients |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Take a Stand Against Delisting |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Drug Reform Mistakes |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Users Fees Lead to Two-Tiered Health Care |
Mimi Divinsky |
| MRG Critical of Propoosed Delisting |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Not Just Tourists Toronto |
— |
| Activists Lobby Toronto Board of Health |
Mimi Divinsky |
| Memories of Mimi Divinsky |
— |
| Brian Day's Activities "Shameful" Says Medical Reform Group |
— |
| Health Care and the New Federal Budget |
— |
| Ontario Budget 2007 - The McGuinty Poverty Budget Disappoints the Poor Most of All |
— |
| Health Providers Call on Premier and Finance Minister to Ensure Provincial Budget Recognizes Links Between Poverty, Food Security and Health |
— |
| Keeping an Eye on City Hall |
— |
| Commentary: Science Scandal or Ethics Scandal? Olivieri Redux |
Arthur Schafer |
| Submission to the Standing Committee on Government Agencies Re: The Health Professions Appeal and Review Board |
Carol Kushner |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| What Will Bring Sanity to the Debate on Drug Costs? |
— |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Emergency Contraceptive Pill Plan B Now Available Without a Prescription in BC |
— |
| Update on Women and Health Protection Emergency Contraception File |
Janet Maher |
| Spring Members Meeting |
Janet Maher |
| Health Providers Against Poverty |
Janet Maher |
| Monitoring Toronto's Response to the Special Diet Campaign |
— |
| Alliances with Other Groups |
Norman Kalant |
| Health Canada Cost Recovery Initiative |
Janet Maher |
| Open Medicine Off to a Great Start: Canadian Health Care Far Better Deal Than U.S. |
— |
| MRG to Harper: Push Back to Quebec |
— |
| Charter Challenge Against Single-Tier Health Care in Ontario |
— |
| Tory Health Platform A Recipe for Privatization: Ontario Health Coalition Bracing for Confrontation in Ontario Election |
— |
| Ontario's Income Gap at All-Time High |
— |
| Safer - Improving Women's Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
— |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Self-Interest Over Public Interest |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Canadian Medical Association Chooses Narrow Self-Interest Over Public Interest |
— |
| Lessons from the Special Diet Campaign |
Gary Bloch |
| Strengthening the Mandate of Ontario Public Health Units |
Rosana Pellizzari |
| Safer Visit |
— |
| Pushing the Boundaries of Direct to Consumer Advertising |
— |
| Claude Castonguay: On the Road to Damascus or Road to the Bank? |
Norman Kalant |
| Pharmacare: Equity, Efficiency and Effectiveness, We've Waited Long Enough |
Joel Lexchin |
| Completing the Vision: Achieving the Second Stage of Medicare |
Michael Rachlis |
| Safer Visit to Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Brad McIntosh |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Time to Add Dental Care to the Basket of Health Care Services |
Hazel Stewart |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| A Poverty Elimination Strategy for Ontario |
— |
| Pharmacist Prescribing: What's Below the Water Line? |
Wendy Armstrong and Verna Milligan |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Operationalizing Health Equity: How Ontario's Health Services Can Contribute to Reducing Health Disparities |
Michael Rachlis |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Reviewing the Doctor-Patient Relationship |
— |
| Tougher Regulation Needed for Drug Industry |
— |
| Student Chapter at University of Western Ontario |
— |
| Student Cry Foul on Doctor Shortage |
— |
| Medical Reform Group Decries Exclusion of Non-For-Profit Providers from Home Care Building |
— |
| Medical Reform Group: CMA Using An Axe Instead of a Scalpel |
— |
| Castonguay Report: Ideology, Self-Interest Trumps Evidence, Public Good |
— |
| P3 (Public-Private Partnerships) Hospitals: What Can We Learn from Others |
Norman Kalant |
| Medical Reform Group Bylaw Proposed by-law Amendments |
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| Another Charter Challenge? |
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| News on Emergency Contraception |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Achieving Equity in Health |
Ahmed Bayoumi |
| Working with Ontario's Cabinet Committee on Poverty Reduction |
Janet Maher |
| Consulting with Ontarians on Poverty Reduction |
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| Ontario Government Consultations on a Poverty Reduction Strategy |
Gary Bloch |
| Building On Ontario's Strength: Submission to the Cabinet Committee on Poverty Reaction |
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| Unhealthy Approach to Hospitals |
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| Ontario Health Coalition Commissions a Panel on Home Care |
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| Constitutional Amendments |
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| MRG Joins Advocacy on Bill C-484, Private Member's Bill on Unborn Victims of Crime |
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| Morgentaler Appointed to Order of Canada |
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| Tougher Regulation Needed for Drug Industry |
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| Bill C-51 Keeps Consumers in the Dark |
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| MRG Suggestions for Improving Federal Bill C-51 Amendments to the Federal Food and Drug Act |
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| A Health Care Lesson for Canada |
Irfan Dhalia |
| MRG Responds to BC Government Threat to Abolish Therapeutics Initiative |
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| Where is the International Response to Depravity and Sexual Violence in Dr. Congo? |
Brad MacIntosh |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| MRG Steering Committee Endorses Jeff Turnbull for CMA President |
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| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Doctors' Group to Government: No Health Care Cuts |
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| Eroding Public Medicare |
Natalie Mehra |
| Acknowledging the New Minister of Health and New Liberal Leader |
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| Lobby Letter on Federal Budget |
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| Recession Relief Fund |
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| Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired |
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| Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy |
Janet Maher |
| Equity for Newcomers to Ontario |
— |
| P3 Disaster Demands Change, Doctors Say |
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| Home Care: Change We need |
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| Couillard Ethics Big Problem: MDs |
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| Fall Meeting Report |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| It's Time to Act - Students for Medicare Organize to Fill Gaps in their Education |
Janet Maher, Malika Sharma |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Provincial Budget |
Janet Maher |
| Bill 152 and the Ontario Government Commitment to a Transparent Poverty Reduction Process |
Janet Maher |
| Member Profile: Rosana Pellizzari, Community Medicine Specialist |
Janet Maher |
| Update on Special Diet |
Janet Maher |
| MRG Calls on the Premier to Honour Spirit of His Poverty Reduction Targets |
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| Federal Budget 2009 |
Janet Maher |
| Europe Yes, Privatization No, Say Doctors |
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| Catastrophic Drug Coverage is Not Enough |
Janet Maher |
| Ontario Government Relents a Little on OHIP for Immigrants and Refugees |
Janet Maher |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| A Canadian Physician's Perspective on the U.S. Health Care Debate |
Ritka Goel |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| A Canadian Doctor Diagnoses U.S. Healthcare |
Michael Rachlis |
| Healthy Citizens Start with Healthy Doctors |
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| Reimbursement For Primary Care Physicians: Is Capitation the Answer? |
Rachelle Sender |
| Concerns on Bill 179 |
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| Some Lessons from the UK |
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| Incoming CMA President's Apocalyptic Rhetoric Unfortunate, Misleading, Says Doctors |
— |
| Doctors Welcome CMS Leadership Change |
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| A Mid-term Assessment of the McGuinty Government On Health |
Janet Maher |
| Health Insurance a Human Right? |
Janet Maher |
| Fair Pay and Reduced Delay |
Janet Maher |
| Recession Sidelines Polices to Dress Women's Poverty: Study |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Health Reform Canada and US: What Does the Evidence Tell Us? |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Jeff Turnbull, Marginalized Populations in Canada and the CMA Blueprint for Health Care Transformation |
Ritika Goel |
| More Evidence Health Care Equity and Efficiency Go Hand in Hand |
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| Nurse Practitioner-Physician Collaboration: A Solution to Achieving High Quality Accessible Primary Health Care in Canada |
Alba DiCenso |
| Conflict of Interest at the CIHR Governing Council |
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| Dr. Bennett Responds to Pressure on the Commons Health Committee |
— |
| MRG Calls for Withdrawl of Prigent Appointment |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Ontario's Big Pharma Drug War |
— |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Three Steps to Make Pharmacare a Reality for All |
Irfan Dhalia |
| Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for Olivieri |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Maintaining Pressure for Equity for Parents at the OMA |
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| Letter for Premier McGuinty |
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| Ontario Budget 2010 |
Janet Maher |
| Building a Culture of Patient-Centered Care |
— |
| Myth: Most Physicians Prefer Free-For Service Payments |
— |
| Reality Check on Health-Care Costs |
Michael Rachlis |
| NHS Has Seen Little Benefit from Market Reforms Says Think Tank |
Zosia Kmietowicz |
| 15 by 15: Early Human Investment in BC |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Paying for Health Care in Canada |
— |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Expanded Scope of Practice for Nurse Practitioners |
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| How to Heal Health Delivery |
Michael Rachlis |
| Canada Playing in Wrong Health League |
Michael Rachlis |
| Accountability on the Social Assistance Review |
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| Where Are We on Poverty Reduction? |
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| Canadian Health Coalition Campaigns |
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| Ontario Hospital Association Model By-Laws Will Muzzle Critical Doctors Says Medical Reform Group |
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| Letter to OHA on New Prototype Hospital By-Laws |
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| A Quick Way to Ease Poverty |
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| Students Seek to Better Education on Health Care Issues |
Ritka Goel |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Organizing for Medicare |
Janet Maher and Ritika Goel |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| National Pharmacare Strategy |
Janet Maher |
| Psychiatry and Anti-Poverty Work |
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| Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy Update |
Janet Maher |
| Health Care Experts Propose New Ways to Publicly Fund Health Care |
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| What Can Be Better in Canada's Health Care System |
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| For All Our Sakes, BC Must Reverse Course On Drug Review Policy |
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| Private Home Care Demand On The Rise |
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| 2010 Ontario Auditor General Focuses On Health Care Gaps |
Janet Maher |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Alternative Federal Budget 2011: Rethink, Rebuild, Renew |
— |
| Editorial Notes |
John Maher |
| Federal Budget: The Government's Plan |
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| Other Election Resources: The Economic Case for Universal Pharmacare |
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| Ontario Budget |
Janet Maher |
| Put Health Care on the Ballot |
— |
| Liberal Party Platform Highlights |
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| NDP Platform Highlights |
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| Green Party Platform Highlights |
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| First Ministers' Health Care Agreement |
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| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Content Without Context: Education of Canadian Health Professionals Lacks Teaching on Canada's Health Care System |
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| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Student For Medicare Hosts CMA Student Townhall |
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| Spring Members' Meeting: Armine Yalnizyan on Federal Funding Issues |
Janet Maher |
| False Positive: Private Profit in Canada's Medical Laboratories |
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| Poverty, Health and Social Assistance: Submission to the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario |
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| User Fees and Extra Billing |
Janet Maher |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Primary Care Reform: Where We Are Now and Where We Need to Go |
— |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Closing Libraries Bad for Your Health Says Doctors' Group |
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| Pre-Election Survey on Health Care Issues |
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| The Double Standard: Why Canada Continues to Export Asbestos |
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| The Truth About Medical Savings Accounts |
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| Public-Private Partnerships in Ontario: A Disastrous Way to Develop Hospitals |
Jilian Alston |
| Health for All |
Michaela Beder |
| Issue #156 |
Winter, 2012 |
Vol. 31, No. 3 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Progress in Evidence-base Medicine: What we have learned in 20 years |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Western Medicine: The Influence of Pharmaceutical Industry on Physician Behaviour |
Ritika Goel |
| Safe Injection Site Decision: Triumph of Evidence over Ideology |
MRG media release |
| Secure the Future of Medicare: A Call to Care |
Canadian Health Coalition |
| 25 in 5's Evaluation on Poverty Reduction: Good Effort, but Incomplete |
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| Doctors Call for More Equitable Approach to Economic Health |
MRG media release |
| Issue #157 |
Spring, 2012 |
Vol. 31, No. 4 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Drug Shortage |
Joel Lexchin |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Harper’s Federal Budget and the Alternative Federal Budget |
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| A Welcome Voice from Doctors, says the Medical Reform Group |
MRG media release |
| Let’s agree on the diagnosis before prescription, say doctors |
MRG media release |
| Doctors’ Group supports freeze on doctors’ income |
MRG media release |
| Provincial Budget: Strong Action for Whom? |
Janet Maher |
| Pre-budget Brief to Ontario Finance and Economic Affairs Committee |
MRG Brief |
| Letter to Provincial Leaders on Budget |
Ritika Goel for MRG |
| Budget Measures Jeopardize the Health of Ontario's Poor, says Physician Group |
MRG media release |
| Social Assistance Review: Commission running out of steam? |
Janet Maher |
| Legal action against the Catalan government by the Coalition of Citizens affected by health care cuts |
Carles Muntaner |
| Students for Medicare conference |
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| Issue #158 |
Summer, 2012 |
Vol. 32, No. 1 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Oral Testimony to Ontario Finance and Economic Affairs Committee |
Ritika Goel |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Ontario Budget 2012 |
Ritika Goel for MRG Steering Committee |
| Letter from Premier McGuinty to Ritika Goel |
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| OMA encouraging coercive behaviour, says doctors’ group |
MRG media release |
| Evidence and Efficiency should guide fee schedule changes says Medical Reform Group |
MRG media release |
| Doctors demand repeal of cuts to refugee health care |
MRG media release |
| The Physician as Advocate |
Philip Berger |
| Follow-up on Ontario Government Helpline |
Janet Maher |
| Refugee Health: Debate on gutting of the federal interim health benefit |
Philip Berger |
| Put Food in the Budget Campaign |
Philip Berger |
| Issue #159 |
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Vol. 32, No. 2 |
| Issue #160 |
Winter, 2013 |
Vol. 32, No. 3 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| A new relationship for the OMA and the Ontario government? Fall members meeting report |
Janet Maher |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| OMA and government reach tentative agreement on fee schedule |
Janet Maher |
| Health Care Cuts Backgrounder and Quick Facts |
Ontario Health Coaltion |
| Fill the IFH Gap: A Call to Action in the Liberal Leadership Campaign |
Health for All |
| Progressive doctors support deal between Ministry of Health and Long Term and the OMA |
MRG media release |
| Ontario Poverty Reducation Strategy: Modest Targets – Modest Results |
Janet Maher |
| Butchering Refugee Health Care is Lose-Lose for Canada |
Ritika Goel |
| Trade Agreements: Will CETA tie our hands permanently on Affordable Drugs? |
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| Wong decision |
– |
| Issue #161 |
Spring 2013 |
Vol. 32, No. 4 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| A Fond Remembrance of Clyde |
John Frank |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Ritika Goel: Health Advocacy for the 21st Century |
Ritika Goel & Janet Maher |
| MRG urges Ontario to ‘Fill the Gap’ left by federal IFHB cuts |
Ahmed Bayoumi |
| Midwifery Founder Awarded Order of Canada |
Debby Copes |
| MRG congratulates Kathleen Wynne on Leadership Win |
Ritika Goel |
| New Premier must ensure Ontario provides healthcare for refugees |
MRG media release |
| User Fees for Home Care? |
Ritika Goel for MRG |
| Constitutional Challenge on Interim Federal Health Program Changes |
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| Access without fear |
Ritika Goel fro MRG |
| Standing Up for Refugee Health |
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| Issue #162 |
Summer-Fall, 2013 |
Vol. 33, No. 1-2 |
| Content |
Title |
Author |
| Public health care expenditures are affordable |
Brian Hutchison |
| Editorial Notes |
Janet Maher |
| Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy |
Janet Maher |
| Home Care: What We Need to Know |
Janet Maher |
| MRG engages in 2013 federal pre-budget consultations |
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| A step in the wrong direction for drug policy |
MRG News release |
| Bridging the generation gap |
Andrew Bresnaban |
| Canadian physicians call for release of Emergency Physician arrested in Egypt |
MRG media release |
| Why do doctors still think Pharma doesn’t influence them? |
Ritika Goel |
| Health Care consulation on plasma donations in Canada |
MRG submission |
| Calling on Ontario to deny approval for paid plasma donors |
Gordon Guyatt |
| Matthews’ reply on paid plasma donors |
Deb Matthews |
| MRG calls on Premier to commit to fairness and inclusiveness for social assistance recipients |
MRG news release |
| Doctors applaud City of Toronto’s support for health care access for all |
MRG media release |
| Ontario Minister of Health responds to MRG on home care fees |
Deb Matthews |
| No Jets Toronto |
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| Injured workers issues |
Ted Haines & Janet Maher |
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