To adapt to our increasingly just-in-time lives the Canadian health-care system is on an upward trajectory toward digitization. This necessary … [Read More...]
From the Monitor Telegram
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System
This is why greedy pharmacists are costing taxpayers millions of dollars
This past week, Global News’ investigative team published an explosive investigation detailing how some pharmacists are making big bucks by scamming … [Read More...]
Pharmacist sentenced for fraudulent PharmaCare claims that benefited low-income patients
Jin Tong (Tom) Li of Richmond receives 12-month conditional sentence after guilty plea A Richmond pharmacist who submitted thousands of fraudulent … [Read More...]
Health minister says ‘action’ is needed but vague on how to stop crooked pharmacists
Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Christine Elliott said Thursday that she is “aware” of the pharmacy fraud brought to light in a Global … [Read More...]
Pharmacy fraud is costing us millions. Why won’t Ontario take it more seriously?
ANALYSIS: Pharmacists cheat the system to the tune of more than $100 million each year — and the province is doing little to stop them, writes Josh … [Read More...]
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System – Part 10
Part 10. Taxpayers Are Fed Up – And Want Something Done! We conducted a survey recently to find out just how strongly Canadians feel about the … [Read More...]
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System – Part 1
Fact: If Unchecked, Fraud Will Collapse The Country’s Vaunted Healthcare System In Just A Few Years Part 1. Canada’s Health System Is Out Of … [Read More...]
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System – Part 2
Part 2. Fraud Costs Canadian Taxpayers $14.5 Billion Annually If you have not read part one, read it here. In his book “License To Steal: How … [Read More...]
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System – Part 3
Part 3. Canada Has No Interest In Fraud, Only In Spending In the article “What you need to know about the Canada Health Transfer” of December 2016 … [Read More...]
10 Shocking Facts About Canada’s Healthcare System – Part 4.
Part 4. When Doctors Are Charged, You Pay Their Legal Bills! When celebrities like OJ Simpson are accused of a crime they are responsible … [Read More...]
Public Spending Millions on Dangerous Drugs
Healthcare Waste
Dispensing Harm. How a handful of pharmacists flooded Ontario’s streets with lethal fentanyl amid a national opioid crisis
A burly man wearing a clown mask walks into a pharmacy. Brandishing a large knife, he heads straight for the dispensing counter and hands the … [Read More...]
Getting away with pharmacy fraud is ‘no problem’ in Ontario
A Toronto Star/Global News investigation reveals that few pharmacists are ever caught for fraudulent overbilling, despite evidence that it’s a … [Read More...]
Canada’s Labour Leaders Urge Premiers to Collaborate on a National Universal Pharmacare Plan
During the Council of the Federation meeting in Saint Andrews, N.B., labour leaders from across the country united to deliver a message to Canada’s … [Read More...]
Government
Black-market value of your health information
To adapt to our increasingly just-in-time lives … [Read More...]
This is why greedy pharmacists are costing taxpayers millions of dollars
This past week, Global News’ investigative team … [Read More...]
Pharmacist sentenced for fraudulent PharmaCare claims that benefited low-income patients
Jin Tong (Tom) Li of Richmond receives 12-month … [Read More...]
Health minister says ‘action’ is needed but vague on how to stop crooked pharmacists
Ontario Minister of Health and Long-Term Care … [Read More...]
Pharmacy fraud is costing us millions. Why won’t Ontario take it more seriously?
ANALYSIS: Pharmacists cheat the system to the tune … [Read More...]
Tax Dollars Wasted
20TH ANNUAL CTF TEDDY AWARDS FOR GOVERNMENT WASTE
Federal - Heritage Canada for the $8.2 million Canada 150 Parliament Hill rink Provincial - Ontario’s $39 billion Fair Hydro Plan Municipal - … [Read More...]
The most outrageous ways the Canadian government is spending our money
It appears that when Canadian politicians smell cash in the public trough, they go glassy-eyed and drop all restraint. Federal, provincial, and … [Read More...]
Ontario’s trillium logo getting makeover under Doug Ford government: sources
Redesign costing taxpayers $89K, less than half what Liberal government spent to alter logo in 2006 The Ford government isn't just putting a new … [Read More...]
EXCLUSIVE: Docs reveal costs not considered in Canada 150 ice rink “wish list”
You may recall the Canada 150 project known as the Parliament Hill ice rink. It was a boondoggle that the Canadian Taxpayers Federation awarded with a … [Read More...]
Other Nutty Stuff
Quebec’s religious-symbols ban is stranger than fiction – but the pushback from society must be real
In a cold open for a 2017 episode of the ABC … [Read More...]
Pharmacist sentenced for fraudulent PharmaCare claims that benefited low-income patients
Jin Tong (Tom) Li of Richmond receives 12-month … [Read More...]
Android 9 Pie rolls out with new tools to fight tech addiction: Here’s everything you need to know
Google released the latest version of its mobile … [Read More...]
Can a gadget save you from the distraction of gadgets?
Most people I know are, to some degree, addicted … [Read More...]
International Waste – United States
US Law Enforcement Officials Announce Largest Ever Elderly Fraud Case
States introducing legislation to import Canadian drugs
Purdue Pharma to stop marketing opioids to U.S. physicians, but policy not extended to Canada
Are Canadian Pharmacies the Solution to America’s High Prescription Drug Prices?