Health care publications

Features:

• Profit Is Not the Cure 2010: Is the Canadian economy sustainable without medicare? Robert Chernomas, Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba and Council of Canadians Board member, writes about the current state of the Canada’s public health care system in this report, November 2010.

Fact sheets

• Profit is Not the Cure
• Profit is not the cure for pharmacare
• Profit is not the cure for the continuing care crisis
• Understanding the Canada Health Act
• Five things you should know about wait times
• The myth of the ‘European solution’
• Wait time success stories in the public system
• Why Patient focused funding doesn’t work
• The Myths of For-Profit Health Care
• Tell your MP to stop private health care

Reports and articles

• 2014 Health Care Accord an Opportunity to Enhance Public Health Care, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2011
• CETA’s High Toll on Health Care, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2011
• Profit Is Not the Cure 2010: Is the Canadian economy sustainable without medicare? Robert Chernomas, Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba and Council of Canadians Board member, writes about the current state of the Canada’s public health care system in this report, November 2010.
• The SPP Makes You Sick: Harmonization of environmental standards directly impacts Canadians’ health, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008
• Canada’s Best Kept Secret Revealed: Public health care gives Canada an economic advantage – despite the high dollar, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008
• Dr. Profit Fudges the Facts: CMA delegates kept from discussing controversial privatization paper at annual meeting, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2007
• The SPP and public safety: How regulatory harmonization threatens our health and the environment, Behind Closed Doors: What they're not telling us about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, July 2007
• Law and Disorder: Conservative activists want courts to strike down public health care, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007
• Council Activists Tell the B.C Government that Profit is Not the Cure, Canadian Perspectives Summer 2007
• Medicare’s Competitive Advantage: Public health care makes good business sense Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2007
• Deep Integration and health care INTEGRATE THIS! A Citizen's Guide to Deep Integration
• Brian Day's False Start Dr. Profit denies his profiteering past and pretends to love public health care - Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2006
• The myth of the 'European solution': A closer look at the U.K., France and Sweden shows the advantages of public health care
• Profit is Not the Cure (PDF report)
• How Canada-U.S. integration is leading to the privatization of the Canadian health care system (excerpt from Maude Barlow’s Too Close for Comfort)
• This is what Americanization of health care looks like
• Trade treaties, commercialization and health care reform
  
• Ten things you should know about the Supreme Court decision on health care

Audio

• Friends of Medicare rally to keep BC healthcare from being privatized, Vancouver BC, July 7, 2007. Part one: Carleen Pickard, BC regional organizer, Council of Canadians.
• Click here to read Maude Barlow's speech "Profit is not the cure, committing to health care for all", which was presented at the S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward on Friday May 4, 2007. The Canadian Health Coalition has posted the CPAC broadcast of these sessions.

Links

• Capitalist Health Insurance for All, by Terry J. Allen, In These Times, October 2009
  

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updated January 31, 2012