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Lewis: Real target in CEO's assassination was for-profit health care

20.12.2024 9

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Steven Lewis

Lewis: Health care failed to resonate in Sask. election, so we all lost

The Saskatchewan Party government has a new mandate stay the course on health care, and spend more time and money chasing the same mirages.

15.11.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Steven Lewis

Lewis: Sask. Party, NDP health-care platforms lack guts, innovation

The promises made by the two main parties hoping to form Saskatchewan's next government lack the imagination needed to fix the real problems in health...

18.10.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Lewis: Feds' health cash to provinces like Sask. should reward success

Canada could offer $50-million funding bonuses to a province like Saskatchewan for achieving reductions in the number of people without a family...

20.09.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Lewis: Canada's health-care data desert hinders any real progress

Steven Lewis finds that even as a member of a primary health-care clinic, Canada's lack of vital information hurts his ability to make good decisions.

16.08.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Lewis: Weight loss drugs a minefield for pharmacare in Canada

As pharmacare gets started in Canada, whether or not to fund weight-loss drugs poses a major dilemma, given the high costs of treating weight-related...

19.07.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: The health care fix too obvious to implement

The solution to Canada's primary care access gap is for communities to grow their own roster of nurse practitioners (NPs).

21.06.2024 20

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Lewis: Here's why health-care workforce plans in Canada always fail

We suffer from an abundance of projections on Canada's health-care staffing needs, but yet they somehow all turn out to be wrong.

19.05.2024 20

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: Canada needs primary care manifesto to fix health system

With more than six million people without a family doctor, Canada's primary care system is an international embarrassment and needs repair.

19.04.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: Throwing money at health care continues to fail Canada

Unlike Canada, where health care is a mess, the United Kingdom improved its system by spending better instead of just spending more.

15.03.2024 6

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: A long-shot lawsuit might improve Canadian health care

A class-action lawsuit to improve access to primary care in Canada is unlikely to succeed, but it could still have an effect on policies.

16.02.2024 20

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: New Canadian medical schools will fail to solve issues

Canada's post-secondary education for health-care workers needs to adapt to the changing needs and realities of the strained system.

19.01.2024 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Steven Lewis: Dear doctors, Canadian health care needs help to evolve

Canada's doctors need to stop resisting change in health care by recognizing that other professionals can help fix the ailing system.

15.12.2023 10

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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