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2004 Events, Reports and Media Releases
- Media Release P3 Hospital Deal Signed in Ottawa with Support of Liberal Government Despite Promises to Protect Healthcare from Privatization.html MSWORD
(December 17, 2004)
OHC Newsletter Winter 2004 edition of The Pulse html
(December 2004)
Long-Term Care OHC's response to the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's discussion document. html PDF
(December 13, 2004)
Media Release Homecare Review just "Smoke and Mirrors"html
(December 6, 2004)
Policy OHC's homecare policy. html PDF RTF
MSWORD
(December 6, 2004)
P3 Report OHC releases a new report by economist Hugh Mackenzie which shows that Brampton's new hospital will cost $175 million dollars more as a P3 than if it were built with public financing.
Media release (PDF) Analysis of the financial data for the Brampton P3 deal (PDF) Summary of Hugh Mackenzie's report (PDF)
FULL REPORT Financing Canada's Hospitals: Public Alternatives to P3s(PDF)
OHC Backgrounder Homecare: A Closer Look MSWORD PDF (November 2004)
OHC Issue Update P3 Hospitals PDF (November 2004)
OHC Backgrounder LHINs: Local Health Integration Networks HTML PDF
(November 2004)
A Closer Look Block Fees and Boutique Medicine PDF (November 2004)
PULSE:OHC Newsletter The fall edition is out with new information on LHINs, P3s, upcoming events and other news.
html MS WORD file
Media Release Homecare Review Opportunity to Scrap Privatization. html (October 5, 2004)
Letter to the Editor No public benefit in privatizing home-care services. Home care needs long-term stability. html (October 4, 2004)
First Ministers' Agreement The OHC has prepared an outline and analysis of the First Ministers' Deal on Healthcare.
Outline (html)
Analysis (html) (September 16, 2004)
First Ministers' Conference - The OHC is on the watch while the PM and provincial premiers meet to discuss health care (September 13-15).
Please click here for information on Citizens Watch groups meeting across Ontario to discuss and analyze the conference as it occurs.
Please click here for regular updates, photos and other resources from the Public Health Care Response Centre which OHC is participating in.
Please click here for the OHC and OFL's update released the morning of Tuesday September 14.
Please click here for the OHC and OFL's update released the evening of Tuesday September 14.
Please click here for an Action Alert - contact Prime Minister Martin and Health Minister Donsanjh with an important message.
Please click here for an Action Alert - contact Premier McGuinty and remind him of what the public demands of him on health care.
Media Release and Fact Sheet Over $100 Million Wasted in Secretive P3 Hospital Deal.
Please click here to view our media release.
Please click here to view our Analysis of Brampton P3 Financial Data..
Please click here to download our Analysis of Brampton P3 Financial Data as a document.. (August 6, 2004)
Backgrounder on the recent Premiers' Conference (prepared prior to the meeting).
Please click here.
Media Release MRI Buyback A Sound Investment - Health Coalition Slams Tory Hypocrisy.
Please click here.
(July 23 2004)
Nurses and P3s Our new fact sheet on how Public Private Partnership hospitals in Britain have had to cut nursing staff by 12%.
Please click here to view the fact sheet online.
Please click here to download the fact sheet.
(June 2004)
Election 2004 Platform Review OHC's point by point comparison and analysis of the Conservative, Liberal and NDP health platforms.
Please click here. (June 18, 2004)
Protest against two-tier health care On June 8th the OHC and Canadian Health Coalition sent a two-tier bus to the Supreme Court to warn against two-tier health care as the Court prepared to hear the Chaoulli case
Please click here for more information.
Please click here for pictures. (June 8, 2004)
Media Release and Backgrounder Health Care costs more, delivers less at investor-owned private for-profit hospitals, major study finds
Please click here for our press release and backgrounder.
Click here for the study itself. (June 7, 2004)
Media Release Massive privatization of public institutions put on table by Ontario Liberals
Please click here for our press release (May 27, 2004)
Election 2004 The federal election will be held on June 28. OHC and the Canadian Health Coaltion are joining forces to campaign for medicare.
Please click here for OHC's BRIEFING NOTE on the Liberal health platform (May 28, 2004)
Please click here for the CHC's election flyer.
Please click here for the Medicare Protection Pledge candidates are being asked to sign.
Budget Analysis Information on how the McGuinty government's first budget impacts on health care
Please click here for our fact sheet (May 18, 2004)
Media Release Health Premiums Unprincipled & Unenforceable:
Ontario Health Coalition. Includes our fact sheet on health premiums
Please click here for our media release. (May 18, 2004)
Media Release "Strong First Step"-
Health Coalition Reacts to Ontario's Nursing Home Announcement.
Please click here for our media release. (May 14, 2004)
Health Action Assembly OHC hosted a Health Action Assembly and Teach-In at Niagara-on-the-Lake July 28 at the site of the Premiers Health Conference.
Please click here for more information. July 23rd.
Please click here for driving instructions.
Please click here for accommodation information.
Please click here for a Backgrounder on the Premiers' Conference.
Forums and Speaking Tours The OHC is sponsoring province wide forums on Long Term Care. We're also sponsoring a tour of economists speaking on P3s as well as a tour by British physician Allyson Pollock speaking on P3s.
Please click here for dates and locations of the P3 tour
Please click here for dates and locations of the Long Term Care hearings
Please click here for dates and locations of the Allyson Pollock tour
Newsletter The Spring Edition of The Pulseincludes information about Long Term Care hearings, Allyson Pollock's tour, Action alerts, Bill 8 and P3 updates and more.
Please click here (Spring 2004)
Media Release Citing Unacceptable Care Standards Groups Launch Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign
Please click here for our media release, forum schedule and resources for participants. (April 26, 2004)
Our April 3 march against P3s was a tremendous success. Thanks to the more than 5,000 people who turned out!
Please click here to see photos from the rally.
Media Release Newly Released Documents Confirm Massive Hospital Privatization
Please click here for our media release. (March 15, 2004)
Please click here to download the OHC's Notes From P3 Documents
Released By William Osler Health Centre (Brampton).
Please click here to view online the OHC's Notes From P3 Documents
Released By William Osler Health Centre (Brampton).
OHC Newsletter The Winter/Spring 2004 edition of The Pulse is out.
Please click here to view/download as a PDF file.
(Winter/Spring 2004)
P3s in Scotland The British Medical Journal has published its findings on the failure of P3 hospitals in Scotland.
Please click here to see our Fact Sheet on the report. (March 9, 2004)
Please click here to download our Fact Sheet as an MS WORD file.
Please click here to see the full British Medical Journal article.
Please click here to see responses to the article.
Urgent Action Write, phone or visit your MPP during the current legislative break and tell him or her that you oppose P3s!
Please click here for talking points and contact info.
(March 2004)
Media Release Health Ministry Sit-In first in escalating campaign to stop private hospitals.
Please click here.
(March 5, 2004)
Media Release Sit-in Sends Message to Smitherman: We Will Fight For Public Hosptials .
Please click here to see our media release and photos from the action.
(March 4, 2004)
Fact Sheet Block Fees and Boutique Medicine: A Closer Look. (February 2004)
Please click here to view online.
Please click here to download.
Media Release Shoddy Corporate Records Behind Bid-Winners of Private Hospital Projects Planned Across the Country.Please click here. (February 24, 2004)
Please click here to view our Backgrounder on bid-winner Carillion.
Please click here to download our Backgrounder as an MS WORD file.
Bill 8 Notice about hearings on Bill 8 "the Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act". Where and how to attend and how to apply to make a presentation to the committee Please click here. (February 5, 2004)
Memo on the latest developments - Please click here. (February 16, 2004)
Background memo and a Briefing Paper on Bill 8 - Please click here. (February 16, 2004)
Pre-Budget Consultations The OHC made a submission to the Ontario government's pre-budget hearings making the case why privatizations, P3s and delistings are "false economies" which would cost Ontarians more in the long run. (February 10, 2004)
Please click here to view online.
Please click here to download as RTF document.
Media Release Extraordinary Secrecy Obscures Billion-Dollar P3 Hospital Deals.
Please click here. (January 21, 2004)
On January 11, 2004, the OHC held a media conference on P3s. Materials prepared for the event included the following documents: On the Record: Pre-Election Liberal Criticisms of P3 HospitalsTable comparing the Liberal P3 model to public hospital model.
Liberals accused of secret P3 planning
Six more private hospitals planned for Ontario, OHC charges. Please click here. (January 12, 2004)
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