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Providing high quality team-based primary care is essential to achieving Better Medicare

May 04, 2023

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Myth: "Privatization" can help everyone access health care

October 05, 2022

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Canadian Doctors for Medicare Position Statement on Virtual Care

August 05, 2022

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Latest CDM Policy Analysis

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When Corporate Health industry lobbyists win, patients lose again

January 28, 2025

Authored by Chaten Jessel & Bernard Ho Earlier this month, Federal Health Minister Mark Holland finally released the long-awaited Canada Health Act Policy Interpretation Letter. He clarified that any health care professionals delivering “physician equivalent services” are prohibited from charging patients or their employee...

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New Canada Health Act interpretation letter misses the mark on virtual care

February 12, 2025 – Drs. Bernard Ho, Monika Dutt, and Chaten Jessel published an op-ed highlighting how private insurance companies are pressuring governments at all levels to exclude employer-funded virtual care from public funding, ensuring that these companies continue to profit from selling or administering plans that include this benefit.
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We need virtual care that cares for everyone

January 21, 2025 - Our Past-Chair, Dr. Danyaal Raza, and CDM Member Dr. Sheryl Spithoff published an article on the Healthy Debate highlighting the importance of virtual care in modernizing Medicare. They warn that inaction risks deepening the primary care crisis, growing opportunities for private-pay virtual care in a regulatory and legislative vacuum, and a negative feedback loop that increases costs and worsens quality.
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Dr. Danyaal Raza on non-physician professionals billing the public system

January 21, 2025 - Check out this episode of the Redeye, where CDM Past-Chair Dr. Danyaal Raza discusses the Canada Health Act Interpretation Letter. He highlights the historic inclusion of nurse practitioners, midwives, and pharmacists under the Act, while addressing the unresolved issue of virtual care.
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