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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…
Wage cuts and contracting out of health support jobs harming workers and health care system: reports
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) On the first anniversary of BC’s health care strike, two…
The Hidden Costs of Health Care Wage Cuts in BC
Download 368.34 KB35 pages A companion piece to this paper, The Pains of Privatization: How Contracting Out Hurts Health Support Workers, Their Families and Health…
The Pains of Privatization
How Contracting Out Hurts Health Support Workers, Their Families, and Health Care Download 475.55 KB53 pages A companion piece to this paper, The Hidden Costs…
Untangling the spin about long-term care in BC
In recent months the provincial government has acknowledged that it has not delivered the 5,000 new long-term residential care beds promised during the last election.…
BC Issues: Cuts to Continuing Care
Issue #2 Attachments BC Issues Primer: Cuts to Continuing Care
Long-term care and home health services in BC on steady decline
Province-wide audit provides clear picture of cuts since 2001, documents lost beds READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Access to long-term care and home health…
Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat?
BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001-2004 Download 314 KB 53 pages Attachments BC Issues Primer: Cuts to Continuing Care
April 2005: Health and bankruptcy
Editorial Rose Shaffer worked for nearly 30 years as a nurse in various hospitals in Chicago, where she was covered by health insurance. Then she…
Democratizing Public Services
Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC Download 225.31 KB45 pages Over the last 15 years there have been repeated…
Ill-Health Canada
Putting Food and Drug Company Profits Ahead of Safety Canada’s political and industry élites have made their choice: corporate profits are to trump the protection…
New CCPA study charges Health Canada with abandoning its duty to protect Canadians’ health and safety
OTTAWA—If Health Canada’s proposed “modernization” of the Food & Drugs Act is adopted, the Department’s already inadequate protection of Canadians’ health and safety will be…
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