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RELEASE: For-Profit MRIs and CT Scans Extremely Grave Threat: Ontario Health Coalition Warns of Public Response

(July 8, 2002) Click here for Media Release

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REPORT: Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario’s Long Term Care Facilities

(May 27, 2002) A report prepared for the Hospital Employees’ Union of British Columbia by the OHC which examines the effect of the Ontario Tory government’s privatization of Long Term Care on the quality of care and patients.

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ARTICLE: Private Finance and “Value for Money” in NHS Hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

(May 18, 2002) British Medical Journal article on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (the British version of P3s). Authors: A. Pollack, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers. Click here for Article

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RELEASE: Throne Speech – Tories still stuck in privatization rut

(May 10, 2002) Click here for Media Release

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RELEASE: What Doesn’t the CD Howe Institute Understand About Who Pays for Health Costs?

(May 1, 2002) Click here for Media Release

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UPDATE: “The Pulse” – Eves Appoints Privatizer Lobbyist As Chief of Staff

(May 2002) Click here for Update

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UPDATE: “The Pulse” – Extend Medicare, Not Extendicare – Big Business and the Kirby Commission

(May 2002) Click here for Update

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

(January 2002) FACT SHEET

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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

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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

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RELEASE: End Botched Cancer Care Privatization Now!

(December 13, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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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

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RELEASE: Senate Report Fatally Biased

(October 29, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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

(October 24, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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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

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RELEASE: US and Canadian Activists Target Health Privateers

(August 9, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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

(May 22, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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FACT SHEET: Privatization Fact Sheet: Why NOT Privatize

(May 2001) FACT SHEET

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FACT SHEET: Health Care Spending: The Facts

(May 2001) FACT SHEET

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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

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

(February 19, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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RELEASE: Telehealth Launch a Milestone in Privatization Agenda

(February 15, 2001) Click here for Media Release

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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

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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

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

(February 3, 2000) Click here for Letter

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RELEASE: Witmer’s Home Care Policies Forcing Privatization

(January 24, 2000) Click here for Media Release

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

(2000) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.   SUMMARY

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

(January 10, 2000) Click here for Media Release

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FACT SHEET: Health Facts: Privatization

(May 1999) FACT SHEET

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