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Health care publications

What’s New:

• Best Kept Secret: Canada’s health care competitive advantage – a comprehensive resource guide about the advantages of Canada’s public health care system for citizens and businesses.

• 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
  

Fact sheets

• B.C. government lets health care privatization go unchecked (PDF)
• At the CMA: In support of public health care (PDF)
• Wait time success stories in the public system (PDF)
• Profit is not the cure: Canada’s health care system is under threat (PDF)

• The myths of for-profit health care
• Five things you should know about health care wait times
• Everything you need to know about the Canada Health Act … but were afraid to ask
• How Quebec’s proposal threatens medicare

Reports and articles

• 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

Brochures and pamphlets

• Profit is not the cure: Help protect medicare (pamphlet – PDF download)

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

• Click here for a list of local health coalitions
  

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updated April 2, 2008