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September 2005: Selling Sickness
Drug companies profit hugely from creating “diseases,” then the “cures” How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan…
July 2005: The Best Health Care Money Can Buy?
Supreme Court ruling pushes Medicare to brink of two-tier abyss The Supreme Court’s recent decision favouring private health insurance didn’t sound the death knell for…
Supreme Court health ruling oblivious to trade treaty threats
Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, the Quebec physician whose complaint led the Supreme Court to strike down Quebec’s ban on private health insurance, celebrated his victory by…
Trojan Horse
Trade treaties, private health insurance, and the Supreme Court decision Download 183.71 KB12 pages
Take tobacco out of the hands of business corporations—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Ottawa) – Because the public health goal of reducing tobacco use directly conflicts with the tobacco industry’s profit…
Curing the Addiction to Profits
A Supply-Side Approach to Phasing out Tobacco Download 402.13 KB170 pages Curing the addiction to profits: A supply-side approach to phasing out tobacco offers a…
Supreme Court ruling bolsters need for public solutions
Anatole France, the famous French historian, in 1894 noted the irony that “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the…
FastFacts: Healthy Smiles, Healthy Kids?
Let’s Get Preventive Dental Care Back into the Schools Download 29.97 KB 2 pages
June 2005: A Very Nasty Piece of Legislation
Bill C-28, if passed, will expose food supply to more carcinogens With all eyes on the Gomery Inquiry, the Martin government was trying before an…
May 2005: When Profits Get Priority Over Health
Vioxx disaster exposes the dark downside of corporate rule Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee looking into the Vioxx-induced heart attacks of an estimated 100,000…
FastFacts: Public-Private Partnerships
Why we should say NO to Maples Surgical Centre Download 31.83 KB 2 pages
The Pains of Health Care Privatization
Guess who does the cooking and cleaning in BC hospitals and nursing homes? If you answered “mostly women,” you would be right. It’s not exactly…
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