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 care system, prepared for the Council of Canadians by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Its conclusion? "Medicare can either be preserved or privatized. It can't be both."
Released just a few days before the scheduled election debates between the federal party leaders, the CCPA report contains facts and figures on the privatization of Medicare that underline its importance as a key election issue.