Insurance

As we wind down our Summer Six-Packs for 2012, check out the stories that fascinated you most about your profession this year.

Physicians angry with the McGuinty government’s unilateral decision to cut $340 million from doctors’ fees assembled at a town hall Thursday to take stock of how the cuts will affect the province’s health-care system.

Here are motions passed by the ‘Parliament of Canadian medicine’

NEW YORK _ Already the world’s number one healthcare spender in terms of percentage of GDP and per capita, the United States is set to see its health expenditures grow to unprecedented levels following the implementation of the recently passed Affordable Care Act.

Some of Britain's best-known hospitals are being lined up by the UK government to export the "NHS brand" around the world and set up profit-making branches overseas to boost their incomes.

Almost two-thirds of Saskatoon Health Region employees earning more than $100,000 are registered nurses.

Nurses continue to be in high demand throughout Canada, due to a national shortage of qualified workers. Nowhere is this need for nurses more pronounced than in Quebec.