OTTAWA--A new study jointly released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) has concluded that government support for non-profit social services could be at risk despite Canadian government assurances that social policies will not be adversely affected by international trade obligations.
Public services and privatization
(Vancouver) The announcement earlier this week by the Insurance Corporation of BC (ICBC) that it intends to increase optional insurance premiums for young and old drivers, and for those living in higher-theft neighbourhoods, is a step towards dismantling public auto insurance in BC.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak to Bill 8 – a Bill that seeks to protect Ontarians’ right to universal public health care.
Caring For Profit tells how Canada's $75 billion-a-year health care system is abandoning its mandate to provide the best possible medical care to Canadians and instead turning Medicare over to transnational corporations.
In this book, Collen Fuller traces alliances between private insurers and the medical profession and provides a "who's who" of the key people and corporations making money in Canada's health care sector. She exposes the strategies and alliances which threaten to replace the principles of Medicare with the rules of the stock market.
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."
OTTAWA--Ontario's health care system is under threat from creeping privatization and public spending cuts, according to a new study, Unsafe Practices, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Costs are being shifted from the public purse to the individual household, and publicly delivered health care services are being reduced, restructured and rationed. Furthermore, hospitals and other institutions are being transformed by private-sector business strategies and management ideologies.
Public health care, the crown jewel of social programs, has worked extremely well for Canadians. Yet Ontario today is witnessing piecemail privatization in health care: the introduction of private-sector business strategies and management ideologies into the public health care system; reductions and stagnation in pubic spending in the sector; the restructuring and rationing of publicly delivered services; cost shifting from the public purse to the individual household.
OTTAWA--The Canadian government must take decisive action now to halt the commercialization of health care, says the 2003 report of Social Watch Canada to be presented this week at the annual World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The report focuses on how governments in Canada are promoting the privatization of health care services and institutions, and thus undermining the accessibility of care based on need rather than ability to pay.