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Unsafe Practices
Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care Download 58.88 KB175 pages Public health care, the crown jewel of social programs, has worked extremely well for…
Without Foundation
How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health…
Society’s most vulnerable denied needed care
Groundbreaking new study exposes the impact of federal and BC cuts to community-based health care CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC…
Medicare being undermined by privatization
What’s wrong with privatizing health care? Plenty. That’s the blunt conclusion of Health Care, Limited, a new synthesis report on the state of Canada’s health…
Health Care, Limited
The Privatization of Medicare Download 266.76 KB 43 pages
The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely…
What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part…
Private clinics no help to Canada’s public health care system
The election campaign has re-opened the debate about private clinics. Promoters of these clinics argue they will decrease waiting times and supplement, not undercut, the…
Health Care Cuts
Who’s to Blame? Download 122.36 KB
Health Accord is welcome, but national standards still in jeopardy
The federal government deserves credit for finally acknowledging that a decade of health spending cuts has taken a toll on medicare. And provincial, territorial and…
The fateful summer of 1962
Foes of Medicare turn Douglas’s dream into a nightmare As a witness to the birth of Medicare in Canada, and as someone who played a…
Private clinics won’t cut waiting times
Recent revelations about private surgical clinics in Vancouver offering quick service to patients willing to pay a “facility fee” have once again sparked debate about…
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