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Action Resources

  • URGENT ALERT:
    Join the Protest Tomorrow, March 23- Alert all supporters and friends!   Private Clinic - Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System
          PDF     (March 22, 2007)


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  • MEDIA RELEASE and MEDIA BACKGROUNDER:
    MEDIA RELEASE:    Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)
    MEDIA BACKGROUNDER Evidence from the system-wide experiment in Britain and some Quick Facts
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)


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  • MEDIA RELEASE:
    Ontario Health Coalition Slams Private Clinic Proposal & John Tory’s Support for Privatization
      HTML    PDF     (March 16, 2007)


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  • Join the Protest February 9th - Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto:
    Message to Health Ministers from Across Canada - Protect Universal Access to Health Care!
      HTML    PDF     (February 6, 2007)


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  • Report on Townhalls
    Reports from town halls of national tour against privatization
    of health care, Fall 2006.
             PDF                 (January 27, 2007)


  • LEGAL OPINION on 2 Tier Clinics
    Legal Opinion of Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell
    PDF      
    Media Release      
    PDF            
    OHC's Letter to the Minister
                PDF         (January 30, 2006)


  • Toronto Star Editorial
    Public health care cheapest and best
             HTML         PDF         (December 22, 2005)

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    Privatization Fact Sheets / Briefing Notes


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    Reports on Privatization
    • Private Clinics Report: First Do No Harm
      Lessons from Ontario’s Experience with For-Profit Diagnostic and Hospital Clinics
            Media Release (PDF)     Full Report (PDF) (October 1, 2007)

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    • LEGAL OPINION on 2 Tier Clinics
      Legal Opinion of Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell
      PDF        
      OHC's Letter to the Minister
              PDF               (January 30, 2006)


    • Briefing Note:
      Canadian Health Coalition: Medicare is sustainable, for-profit care is not.
            MS WORD    (May 14, 2004)

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    • Media Release and Backgrounder
      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)

    • The private side of Medicare
      By Thomas Walkom, the Toronto Star. (September 20, 2003)
    • British Medical Journal articles on the effects of privatised care:

      • Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study
        By M. Dunnigan and A. Pollack.
              HTML    (April 26, 2003)
      • Editorial:
        Beds in the NHS
        By Pollock and Dunnigan
              HTML           (February 19, 2000)
      • Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?
        By A. Pollock, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers.
            HTML or   PDF      (May 18, 2002)
      • Regulating nursing homes -
        Caring for older people in the private sector in England
        by S. Kerrison and A. Pollock
             HTML    PDF              (September 8, 2001)
      • Will primary care trusts lead to US-style health care?
        by A. Pollock
            HTML       PDF     (April 21, 2001)
      • How private finance is moving primary care into corporate ownership
        by A. Pollock and S. Player and S. Godden
               HTML       PDF        (April 21, 2001)
      • The private finance initiative:
        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)

    • Ontario Health Coalition - Scanning For Profit: A Critical Review of the Evidence Regarding For-Profit MRI and CT Clinics. This is a report prepared for the Ontario Health Coalition by Ross Sutherland which demonstrates that for-profit MRI and CT Clinics are slower, more expensive, and riskier.
      • Media Release:     HTML
      • Report:   HTML      RTF      WORD   (September 19, 2002)

    • Ontario Health Coalition - Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities.
      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.
      • Summary        HTML   RTF
      • Full Report:   HTML   RTF   (May 27, 2002)

    • McMaster Study Shows Mortality Rates Higher in For-Profit Hospitals
      Full study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal
        •      HTML      PDF  (May, 2002)
        Short article on study by co-author Dr. Gordon Guyatt.
        HTML

    • The Pulse -Winter 2002 - Ontario Updates
           HTML    (January 2002)
    • Secrets in the House
      Homecare Reform in Ontario 1997 - 2000
           HTML.     (November 2001)
    • Report from Long Term Care Forums. During February and March 2001, the Ontario Health Coalition held hearings across Ontario on the government's proposed changes to Long Term and Home Care in Ontario. This is a detailed report of those hearings.
      MS Word     (March 2001)
    • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Tipping the Balance: Health Care Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario.
      Full Report:      HTML            
      32 page summary Public Pain, Private Gain: The Privatisation of Health Care in Ontario
         PDF     (Summer 2000)

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    Privatization Media Releases (2007)

  • MEDIA RELEASE:
    Tory's Health Platform A Recipe for Privatization
          PDF     (May 24, 2007)

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  • MEDIA RELEASE and MEDIA BACKGROUNDER:
    MEDIA RELEASE:    Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)
    MEDIA BACKGROUNDER Evidence from the system-wide experiment in Britain and some Quick Facts
      HTML    PDF     (March 22, 2007)


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  • MEDIA RELEASE:
    Ontario Health Coalition Slams Private Clinic Proposal & John Tory’s Support for Privatization
      HTML    PDF     (March 16, 2007)


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  • Media Release
    Health Coalitions Accuse Harper Government of Allowing Privatization and Not Improving the Public System
      MS Word    PDF     (February 5, 2007)

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    Privatization Media Releases (2006)

  • URGENT MEDIA RELEASE:
    Two-Tier Health Clinic in Kingston Contravenes Law:
    OHC Calls on Ministry to Take Action
      PDF     (December 12, 2006)


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  • MEDIA ADVISORY
    16 Ontario Communities Chosen to Host National Campaign "Medicare Works: We Can't Afford Private Health Care"
             PDF                 (November 14, 2006)


  • MEDIA RELEASE:Unprecedented Privatized Hospital “News Blackout
    Secret tenders issued to private companies for seven hospitals
      RTF    PDF     (October 13, 2006)


  • MEDIA RELEASE
    McGuinty should stop emergency room privatization:
    For-profit Med-Emerg is not a solution for doctor shortages
             PDF                 (September 27, 2006)

  • MEDIA RELEASE
    George Smitherman on right track in war of words against two-tier healthcare
    But must stop his own government's privatization
             PDF                 (September 11, 2006)

  • MEDIA ALERT
    Dr. Day’s Election a Disappointment:
    Will Be a Catalyst for a Renewed Campaign to Support the Gains of Public Medicare
             PDF                 (August 22, 2006)
  • LEGAL OPINION on 2 Tier Clinics
    Legal Opinion of Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell
    Media Release              PDF         (January 30, 2006)



    • Privatization Media Releases (2005)

    None: See P3s webpages for related content.

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    Privatization Media Releases (2004)

    None: See P3s webpages for related content.

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    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

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      Privatization Media Releases (2002)

    • 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.

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      Privatization Media Releases (2001 and earlier)

    • 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.

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