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Ontario Health Coalition |
OHC NEWSLETTER Fall 2001 |
OHC: Call To Action
On October 24, local health coalitions, activists and supporters are holding events to demand real public consultations on health care across the province. If you would like to organize an event in your community, please contact us at 416-441-2502 or email: ohc@sympatico.ca.
BROKEN promises
Despite long-promised public consultations on health care in Ontario, the provincial government has substituted an expensive and manipulative PR campaign for real democracy. In the late summer, at a cost of $1.35 million, the government delivered glossy surveys to every household in the province. A far cry from the real public consultations announced last spring, the survey avoids asking anything about health care privatization and other key attacks on Medicare.
sick of DUMB questions
Inflamed members of the public have flooded our office with phone-calls. They are suspicious about this "survey". They want a chance to tell the government that they don't want our public Medicare system squandered.
STOP privatization
Responses have varied. Some have written "NO PRIVATIZATION" across every page before sending the survey in to the ministry. Others are writing their real comments in the margins. Others refuse to participate. By far, the loudest objection was expressed over questions asking us to choose between such options as "Investing in new, state-of-the-art life-saving technologies" or "Having additional nurses and other staff to improve patient care". Many noted on the survey that, of course, both are necessary.
Table of Contents
Cover Story on the Romanow Commission
Romanow Commission: Facts & Details
OHC Conference: Convergence December 1st 2001
OHC Day of Action: October 24
Health "Consultations" Panned
Province's Long Term Care PR a Slap to Seniors
"Two-Tier Tony" - Profile of Health Minister Tony Clement
How YOU Can Help Save Medicare: Become a Campaign Organizer!
