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Ignoring proven wait list solutions undermines health care sustainability
Imagine looking in a mirror and not seeing the nose on your face. There it is, right in front of your eyes but somehow you…
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From P3s to AFPs
New Branding but Same Bad Deal Download 257.48 KB8 pages
May 2008: The Truth About the Drug Companies
Big Pharma’s R&D excuse for steep prices is unfounded The pharmaceutical industry is dominated by just 10 to 20 giant companies–roughly half European and half…
April 2008: Medicare and Gender
In looking forward, we need to make health care the objective rather than the problem. And instead of seeing expenditures on health care as the…
April 2008: Lies the Media Tell us
So-called “studies” by right-wing think-tanks have long provided “evidence” for the corporate media to bash “big government” and extol the virtues of the private corporations…
FastFacts: Parallel Health Care
The Wolf in Sheeps’ Clothing Download 489.81 KB 2 pages
Fast Facts: Réseau de santé « parallèle » : le loup dans la bergerie
Cet article de Fast Facts a été publié le 19 février dans le Winnipeg Free Press. Presque en même temps, les médias parlaient du Rapport…
Removing Barriers to Work
Flexible Employment Options for People with Disabilities in BC Download 1.29 MB64 pages Attachments Removing Barriers to Work: Flexible Employment Options for People with Disabilities…
Make work possible for more people with significant disabilities: study
(Vancouver) People living with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities and serious conditions such as MS often find themselves in a catch-22 – unable to take on…
The Right is Wrong and The Left is Right
Cutting Through the Neoliberal Bafflegab Download 153.84 KB316 pages For the past 14 years, as editor of The CCPA Monitor, the monthly journal of the…
December 2007: No Excuse For Denying Drug Coverage
It’s time to end Canadians’ long wait for Pharmacare Canadians have been waiting for Pharmacare since the early 1960s when it was proposed by the…
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