CHICAGO, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama's public healthcare option doesn't address cost projections of such a plan if modeled after Medicare, the Heritage Foundation said.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- As the push for universal healthcare access gains momentum in the United States, many of the countries seen as potential models for a new American system are themselves edging away from socialized medicine.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 29 (UPI) -- A leading Canadian think tank Tuesday issued a report warning California against a Canadian-style healthcare system.
WASHINGTON, Del., April 18 (UPI) -- Republicans successfully blocked a Democratic plan in the U.S. Senate to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. government study in Washington has suggested the federal government currently pays 45 percent of the nation's health costs. The study, which comes amid increasing agitation for the government to pay more of the country's health costs, said the amou
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Nearly eight in 10 California voters favor employers either providing employees' health coverage or paying into a state fund that would, a poll said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Moving toward a national, single-payer healthcare system like Canada's is a tempting, but very grave mistake, Canadian-born doctor and author David Gratzer said this week.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- California's Democrat-controlled Assembly has passed a universal healthcare bill that is expected to figure in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election bid.
TORONTO, June 8 (UPI) -- The vast majority of Canadians oppose a private parallel healthcare system, but most also don't like the status quo, says a new poll.
MONTREAL, July 18 (UPI) -- A comparison of Canadian and U.S. surgery costs suggests Canada's single-payer system is more efficient, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Monday.