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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also number one in COVID-19 infections and deaths. |
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News
Ed Finn
| Federal and most provincial governments continue to deny many thousands of citizens the basic preventive and protective health services that are standard practice in most other advanced nations. |
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Podcast
Scott Neigh
| Public health care is threatened in all provinces, and especially in Alberta. Sandra Azocar talks about the work of Friends of Medicare to defend public health care in Alberta. |
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News
Karl Nerenberg
| Many Canadians perceive our system to be more socialized than it actually is, because they think of health care only as doctors' visits and hospitalization. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| After 75 years of debate, with health-care costs spiraling out of control and the quality of medical care falling short of that in single-payer countries, the time is right for Medicare-for-all. |
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Blog
Dennis Gruending
| The Liberals are promising pharmacare but not a universal program. Let's look to the wisdom of medicare founders T.C. Douglas and Emmett Hall on how to proceed. |
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Blog
Yves Engler
| While nurses defend public health care, doctors have long promoted a capitalist model of medicine that maximizes their wealth and power. |
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News
Ed Finn
| Medicare originated at the provincial, not federal level -- in Saskatchewan. So could the extension of public health care to include prescription drugs, and even dental and vision coverage. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| We need to open the airwaves to include a diversity of voices, including those who are advocating for single-payer health care. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| As Trumpcare versus Obamacare dominates the cable news, the unreported movement for single-payer health care grows. As with all great shifts in history, when the people lead, the leaders follow. |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| In an age when the rich demand a fast lane to the front of every line, it will require resolve and determination to preserve our medicare system. |
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Podcast
Redeye Collective
| On September 6, the B.C. Supreme Court began hearing Cambie Surgeries Corp's constitutional challenge to the Medicare Protection Act. Colleen Fuller says the case poses a grave threat to our system. |
