refugee health cuts
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Refugee health care’s coming back. Will doctors get the memo?The federal government promised to restore full refugee health care by April 1. But researchers worry confused clinicians will keep turning people away.CanadaFeb 19, 2016
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Refugee health care will be fully restored April 1, feds sayThe federal Liberals are going to follow through on their promise to reinstate refugee health care cut four years ago, they say. They just haven't had time yet.CanadaFeb 18, 2016
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Some Canadian refugees are more equal than othersIf you're a refugee or asylum-seeker in Canada, the debt you're saddled with and the health care you get depend on where you're from.CanadaJan 19, 2016
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Unanswered questions from the Liberals’ Syrian refugee strategyThere are still plenty of unanswered questions when it comes to Canada's ambitious, amorphous refugee resettlement plan. Here are a few of them.CanadaNov 24, 2015
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Ontario prepares for refugee influx: timing and magnitude unknownOntario had sent health care practitioners a memo warning them to brace for a coming influx of Syrian refugees, even though the province doesn't know how many people are coming, and when.CanadaNov 15, 2015
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Canada’s scrambling to resettle 25,000 Syrians but refugee health care may not be restored for ‘months’The Liberals have promised to reinstate health care for refugees but it hasn't happened yet.CanadaNov 12, 2015
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Refugee health cuts: Even those who qualify get turned awayThe federal government's cuts to health care for refugee applicants, and the resulting confusion over what's covered, has meant even people who qualify for care get turned away by physicians who can't stomach the complex paperwork.CanadaJul 8, 2015
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Roundtable highlights refugee health-care strugglesThe Liberal-hosted roundtable followed a July 4 Federal Court ruling against the Harper government's changes to health-care coverage for refugee claimants.CanadaJul 12, 2014
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