Sep 1, 2016
Pending B.C. case could change the landscape of healthcare in Canada
Rick Turner
An ongoing B.C. Supreme Court case could open up the province to a two-tier health system. That shouldn't happen.
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May 24, 2016  Fighting to preserve medicareExtra-billing in Ontario, private MRIs in Saskatchewan and user-fees in Quebec are all violations of the Canada Health Act. And more violations are on the horizon. |
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Feb 19, 2016 For-profit plasma clinic goes against report on patient safetySaskatchewan is opening the first for-profit plasma donation clinic in the country. But this isn't even the first attempt by the private company Canadian Plasma Resources to set up for-profit clinics. |
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Aug 27, 2014 People before profit! Medicare covers everybody.Medicare covers everybody. Everybody benefits. But Medicare opponents are heading to court to try and dismantle it. |
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Aug 26, 2014  Underneath the legal drama: The ethics of for-profit health care in B.C.Vanessa Brcic The Cambie trial to be heard in B.C. Supreme Court is an opportunity to turn our attention to the blinding ethical discord that lies beneath the growing for-profit health-care industry in Canada. |
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Sep 19, 2012  Follow the money: The growth of private health care in CanadaColleen Fuller We are facing a new landscape in health care, one that has been shaped, in part, by years of governmental failure to enforce laws to uphold not only the public interest, but also the public will. |
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Apr 9, 2012 Wildrose Party disguises health-care myths as factsAdrienne Silnicki The Wildrose claim that offering private health care creates more options, reduces wait times and protects and strengthens public health care. Each one of these points is false. |
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Feb 3, 2012  Needs No Introduction: The future of Canadian health careNeeds No Introduction In this edition of Needs No Introduction, Mike Luff, Diana Gibson and Maude Barlow share their thoughts and observations on the current state of health care in Canada and where we might be going. |
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Dec 22, 2011  Leading Canada's public healthcare to the free-market guillotineStefan Christoff National discussion in Canada on the Conservative government's new healthcare financial ultimatum, a take-it-or-leave-it-style proposal, largely revolves around myths. |
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Aug 31, 2011 Bad medicine from advisory panel at CMA annual meetingDr. Danielle Martin Canadian Doctors for Medicare At the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association an independent advisory panel suggested the government look at more funding options for health care -- like user fees and private funding. |
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Jun 16, 2011 Health care for sale? The health impacts of privatizationPeople's Health Radio Just how public is our public health-care system? We look at the trend of increasing health-care privatization in Canada and B.C., and the health impacts on patients and health-care workers. |
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Jan 20, 2011  Health Canada putting profit before health in drug regulation harmonizationA new CCPA study examines Health Canada’s harmonizing initiatives to date, part of the modernization initiative, and finds they have been putting private profit ahead of public health. |
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Nov 24, 2010 The U.S. health insurance industry's campaign against Michael MooreA whistle-blower on the Democracy Now! news hour revealed that after the release of "Sicko", health insurance executives thought that they may have to implement a plan "to push Moore off a cliff." |
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Jul 6, 2010 Nova Scotia: Health minister's optimism put to the testHealth Minister Maureen MacDonald says things are moving forward and she declares herself optimistic. |
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Mar 24, 2010 U.S. health care reform: A better bad systemThe U.S. Congress finally passed a health-care bill. As health-care programs go, it holds no candle to the Canadian system or some of the other public systems, but it's a step forward. |
 A health care debate: Would Canada benefit from further privatization of health care?Oct 4, 2010 to Oct 5, 2010
Room 3154, Medical Sciences Bldg
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A health care debate to better understand the health care debate. |
 Medicare: Solutions From WithinMay 15, 2010
Faculty of Law Building, Bennett Lecture Hall
78 Queen's Park Avenue
(At Museum Station)
Toronto
Canada
43° 39' 59.8968" N, 79° 23' 35.8728" W
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A one day conference highlighting issues within the Canadian health care system and how we can solve them within a publicly funded model. |
