Privatization

FACT SHEET: Medicare’s Critics: Back to the “Good Old Days”?

(January 2002) FACT SHEET

UPDATE: “The Pulse” – Cancer Treatment Privatized Without Considering Public Options: Auditor and Province Hands Off Millions in Public Assets to Developers

(January 2002) Click here for Update

UPDATE: “The Pulse” National Medicare Update – Summary on the Romanow Commission and an Update on the Kirby Committee Report and the Mazankowski Report

(January 2002) Click here for Update

RELEASE: End Botched Cancer Care Privatization Now!

(December 13, 2001) Click here for Media Release

REPORT: Social Cohesion and Privatization in Canadian Healthcare

(December 2001) A report by Prof. Hugh Armstrong of Carleton University’s School of Social Work originally published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society 16:2 (December 2001), pp. 65-81. Click here for Report Click here for printable version of report

RELEASE: Senate Report Fatally Biased

(October 29, 2001) Click here for Media Release

RELEASE: OHC Holds Events Province-Wide to Demand Real Public Consultations on Healthcare

(October 24, 2001) Click here for Media Release

ARTICLE: Regulating Nursing Homes – Caring for Older People in the Private Sector in England

(September 8, 2001) By S. Kerrison and A. Pollock, British Medical Journal. Click here for Article

RELEASE: US and Canadian Activists Target Health Privateers

(August 9, 2001) Click here for Media Release

RELEASE: Urgent Province-Wide Campaign Against Harris Private Hospital Plans Targets MPPs in their Home Constituencies

(May 22, 2001) Click here for Media Release

FACT SHEET: Privatization Fact Sheet: Why NOT Privatize

(May 2001) FACT SHEET

FACT SHEET: Health Care Spending: The Facts

(May 2001) FACT SHEET

RELEASE: More than $190,000 in political donations from another big winner in Harris health policy

(March 21, 2001) Tory donors Extendicare and CPL REIT benefit from privatization. Click here for Media Release

RELEASE: Health Care Watchdog Slams Privatization of Cancer Treatment in Ontario

(February 19, 2001) Click here for Media Release

RELEASE: Telehealth Launch a Milestone in Privatization Agenda

(February 15, 2001) Click here for Media Release

RELEASE: Community Activists Come Together in Sudbury to Form Local Health Coalition and Organize Public Forum on Privatization

(March 20, 2000) Click here for Media Release

ARTICLE: Beds in the NHS: The National Bed Inquiry Exposes Contradictions in Government Policy

(February 19, 2000) By Pollock and Dunnigan, British Medical Journal.   ARTICLE

LETTER: to Prime Minister Jean Chretien re. Alberta Proposals to Contract with For-Profit Hospitals

(February 3, 2000) Click here for Letter

RELEASE: Witmer’s Home Care Policies Forcing Privatization

(January 24, 2000) Click here for Media Release

SUMMARY: Tipping the Balance: Health Care Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario

(2000) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.   SUMMARY

RELEASE: Tory Support for Private, For-Profit Sector Increasing Cost of Health Care

(January 10, 2000) Click here for Media Release

FACT SHEET: Health Facts: Privatization

(May 1999) FACT SHEET