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PRIVATIZATION REPORTS
Groundbreaking report on the growth and practices of for-profit surgical, MRI and boutique physician clinics across Canada. Where are they? How are they making their profits? How are they promoting two-tier medicare? Where do they get their staff from? What does this mean for public health care in Canada.
FRANÇAIS (en bref) (October 6, 2008)
Media Release (PDF) Full Report (PDF) (October 1, 2007)
OHC's Letter to the Minister
PDF (January 30, 2006)
MS WORD (May 14, 2004)
A major study by Dr. P.J. Devereaux finds that health care costs more, delivers less at investor-owned private for-profit hospitals.
Press release and backgrounder
The study itself. (June 7, 2004)
By Thomas Walkom, the Toronto Star. (September 20, 2003)
- Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative:
By M. Dunnigan and A. Pollack.
HTML (April 26, 2003)
Beds in the NHS
By Pollock and Dunnigan
HTML (February 19, 2000)
By A. Pollock, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers.
HTML or PDF (May 18, 2002)
Caring for older people in the private sector in England
by S. Kerrison and A. Pollock
HTML PDF (September 8, 2001)
by A. Pollock
HTML PDF (April 21, 2001)
by A. Pollock and S. Player and S. Godden
HTML PDF (April 21, 2001)
The politics of the private finance initiative and the new NHS
by D. Gaffney, A. Pollock, D. Price and J. Shaoul
Part one: HTML PDF.
Part two: HTML PDF.
Part three: HTML PDF
Part four: HTML PDF (July 3, 1999)
This is 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.
Full study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal
Homecare Reform in Ontario 1997 - 2000
PRIVATIZATION FACT SHEETS/BRIEFING NOTES
on the group behind the Ontario legal challenge to Medicare.
Charter Challenge against Medicare in Ontario opportunistic and dishonest:
Evidence from the system-wide experiment in Britain and some Quick Facts
The Supreme Court Ruling on Private Health Care.
Chaoulli v. Attorney General of Quebec: What the Supreme Court Really Said By Steven Shrybman, Sack Goldblatt Mitchell
and
Two-Tier Health Systems: A Quick Glance Around the World
HTML link (June 15, 2005)
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Canadian Health Coalition: Stop two-tier privatization of health service delivery.,/font>
MS WORD
PRIVATIZATION MEDIA RELEASES
Tory's Health Platform A Recipe for Privatization
MEDIA RELEASE:Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System
Ontario Health Coalition Slams Private Clinic Proposal & John Tory’s Support for Privatization
Health Coalitions Accuse Harper Government of Allowing Privatization and Not Improving the Public System
Privatization Media Releases (2006)
Two-Tier Health Clinic in Kingston Contravenes Law:
OHC Calls on Ministry to Take Action
16 Ontario Communities Chosen to Host National Campaign "Medicare Works: We Can't Afford Private Health Care"
Secret tenders issued to private companies for seven hospitals
McGuinty should stop emergency room privatization:
For-profit Med-Emerg is not a solution for doctor shortages
George Smitherman on right track in war of words against two-tier healthcare
But must stop his own government's privatization
Dr. Day’s Election a Disappointment:
Will Be a Catalyst for a Renewed Campaign to Support the Gains of Public Medicare
Media Release PDF (January 30, 2006)
Privatization Media Releases (2005)
None: See P3s webpages for related content.
Privatization Media Releases (2004)
None: See P3s webpages for related content.
Privatization Media Releases (2003)
- September/October 2003 - The Ontario Health Coalition and the Ontario Electricity Coalition are co-sponsoring the Trojan Horse Tour which is crossing Ontario during the provincial election campaign, warning of the dangers of privatization.
- 9 September 2003 - Coalition says private operator not appropriate for mental health and addictions facility on Queen.
- 31 March 2003 - For-Profit Hospitals & Clinics threaten the future of Medicare
- 29 October 2002 - Kirby Report a Trojan Horse for Privatization (Council of Canadians).
- 26 September 2002 - UPDATE: For-profit MRI & CT Scan Update: Clement says he's looking at it, Eves says "policy is evolving."
- 19 September 2002 - Media Release: For-profit MRI and CT Clinics Slower, More Expensive, Riskier says new report.
- 4 September 2002 - Media Release: Banff Health Ministers Meeting - Minister Clement's Semantics Disguise Fatal Poison Pill: Health Coalition Warns.
- 8 July 2002 - Media Release: For-Profit MRIs and CT scans pose grave threat - OHC.
- 10 May 2002 - Throne Speech Shows Tories Still Hooked on Privatization.
- 1 May 2002 - What doesn't the CD Howe Institute understand about who pays for health costs?
- May 2002 - Pulse: Eves Appoints Privateer As Chief of Staff.
- May 2002 - Pulse: Extend Medicare, Not Extendicare - Big Business and the Kirby Commission.
- 13 December 2001 - End Botched Cancer Care Privatization Now!
- 29 October 2001 - Coalition: Senate Report Fatally Biased
- 24 October 2001 - OHC holds events province-wide to demand real public consultations on health care.
- 9 August 2001 - US and Canadian activists target health privateers.
- 22 May 2001 - OHC organizes province-wide protests in Tory MPP's ridings against private hospitals.
- 21 March 2001 - Tory donors Extendicare and CPL REIT benefit from privatization.
- 19 February 2001 - OHC slams privatization of cancer care.
- 15 February 2001 - Telehealth launch is a milestone in privatization agenda.
- 20 March 2000 - Community activists come to together in Sudbury to form local health coalition and organize public forum on privatization.
- 3 February 2000 - Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chretien Re: Alberta proposals to contract with for-profit hospitals.
- 24 January 2000 - Media Release: Witmer's Home Care policies forcing privatization.
- 10 January 2000 - Tory support for private, for-profit sector increasing cost of health care.
Privatization Media Releases (2002)
Privatization Media Releases (2001 and earlier)
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