Medical Reform Group News Releases

1979 - 1995

• Privatizing Health Care: No Debate Needed (July 5, 1995)
• Ontario Should Consider B.C.'s cost-saving drug plan (July 5, 1995)
• Ontario Medical Association's advocacy of privatization betrays Ontario (June 12, 1995)
• Ontario Medical Association's "Social Contract Days" Penalize Patients (April 5, 1995)
  
• Cuts in public health budget are short-sighted and counter-productive (April 3, 1995)
  
• Will the Liberal Government betray Medicare? (March 6, 1995)
• OMA Suspending Negotiations with the Government: Good Riddance, says Medical Reform Group (March 5, 1995)
• Warning: This Budget is Dangerous to Your Health (March 1, 1995)
• Family Physicians Group Encourages Unethical Behaviour in its Members (January 16, 1995)
• Maintaining the Principle of Universal Access to Health Care (January 15, 1995)
  
  
• Social Contract Clawback Magnifies Fee-for-Service Distortions (December 18, 1994)
  
• Doctors' Group Supports Nurse Practitioners (December 13, 1994)
  
• Private health facilities for the well-off violate the principles of the Canada Health Act (December 13, 1994)
  
• Subscribe to Medical Reform (September 1994)
• User Fees Hurt Sick (August 19, 1994)
  
• Medical Reform Group of Ontario Condemns OMA Council's Betrayal of Membership (July 7,1994)
  
• MRG critical of proposed delisting (February 1994)
  
  
• Bill 50: Tinkering with the non-system (November 1993)
  
• Canada's Single-payer health care scheme a singular success (August 1993)
  
  
• Pharmaceuticals bill will drive up costs (December 1992)
  
  
• Cap on high billers is a step in the right direction, Medical Reform Group says (May 24, 1991)
  
  
• Medical Reform Group Press Release Regarding Provincial Elections (August 29, 1990)
  
  
• MRG Statement on Free Trade (November, 1988)
  
• Prescribing in Canada (September 1988)
  
• Medical Reform Group urges Peterson to establish abortion clinics (February 12, 1988)
  
  
• MRG Summary Sheet for OMA Task Force Report on the Allocation of Health Care Resources (1986)
  
• MRG Calls OMA Ad Campaign Misleading (March 25, 1986)
  
• Medical Reform Group Supports Bill 94 (March 1986)
  
• MRG Brief on Bill 94 (March 4, 1986)
  
• Medical Reform Group supports legislation (March 4, 1986)
  
• Medical Reform Group shocked at physician protest (February 24, 1986)
  
• Doctors Condemn Ontario Medical Association for Misleading Patients (February 20, 1986)
  
• MRG decries further OMA protest and urges doctors to negotiate end to extra-billing (January 18, 1986)
  
  
• MRG Pleased (December 19, 1985)
  
• Ontario Doctors' Group expects swift end to extra-billing (May 5, 1985)
  
• Doctors' Group demands clarification from Miller regarding Opting Out (April 30, 1985)
  
• Medical Reform Group Calls for Medically-Insured Free-Standing Abortion Clinics (April 24, 1985)
  
  
• MRG Brief to Senate Standing Committee (September 1984)
  
• Medical Reform Group of Ontario Press Release (April 4, 1984)
  
• The Canada Health Act: A Brief by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (February 7, 1984)
  
  
• Medical Reform Group applauds introduction of Canada Health Act (December 13, 1983)
  
• Open Letter regarding medically-insured free-standing abortion clinics (September, 1983)
  
• Medical Reform Group of Ontario urges strong Canada Health Act (July 25, 1983)
  
• Consolidating the Gains: Do or Die for Ontario's Health Care System (April 24, 1983)
  
• Resolution on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and User Fees (April 23, 1983)
  
• User fees could lead to two-tiered medical system (March 31, 1983)
  
  
• Medical Reform Group of Ontario position on fee dispute (April 13, 1982)
  
  
• Letter to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (August 23, 1980)
  
• Statement to the Toronto Board of Health (June 13, 1980)
  
• MRG Urges End to Opting Out (May 25, 1980)
  
• The Crisis in Health Care: A Brief by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (April 1, 1980)
  
• Medical Group Urges End to Opting Out (April 1, 1980)
  
• Settling Fee Dispute (1980)
  
• Threatened Physicians Strike (1980)
  
• The OHIP Fee Dispute: The Position of the Medical Reform Group (1980)
  
• Medical Reform Group Letter to Health Minister Dennis Timbrell
  
• Medical Reform Group Letter to Dennis Timbrell
  
  
• Open Letter to Dennis Timbrell (November 22, 1979)
  
• Opting Out of OHIP (October 14, 1979)
  
• Funding of Health Care (October 14, 1979)
  
• Reform Group Formed (April 1979)
  
• Announcing the Medical Reform Group (March 17, 1979)

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