"Public Health Care: How can we sustain it?" BCHC Public Forum

What do cuts to Health Authority budgets, medical tourism, "patient focused funding" and the Charter challenge launched in BC Courts by private, for-profit clinic owners have in common? All are being advanced with the claim that more for-profit health care is needed to ensure that our public health care system remains "sustainable". Is this really true?

Public health care advocates come together at a public forum to explore the motivation behind, and implications of, expanded for-profit health care in BC and Canada.

Forum address the real threat to the sustainability of Medicare posed by market-style funding reforms such as PFF, and the need for innovation in the public health care system. It will also raise the alarm on the aggressive constitutional challenge being waged by private health care investors to open up public health care to American-style insurance companies.

Speakers:
Rachel Tutte (BC Health Coalition Co-chair)
Steven Shrybman (Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP)
Iglika Ivanova (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Paul Hochfeld (Physicians for a National Health Program)
Glyn Townson (BC Persons with AIDS Society)

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• health
• care
• sustainability
• privatization
• private
• insurance

[michaelmaye34]

People need to stop buying insurance all together , that will change there views, because of discrimination.

[michaelmaye34]

what about oaths of office , that you have took to take care of people.