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Tuesday, Jan 10 2012
Privatization harms the public system. Some claim that opening the door to private care would relieve pressure, but this is untrue. This backgrounder reviews the arguments for and against increasing private for-profit health care in Canada.
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Friday, Sep 24 2010
To the editor of the Montreal Gazette:
Re: Quebec’s decision to not implement user fees for health services
As representatives of Nurses for Medicare, a grassroots initiative that promotes publicly-funded, not-for-profit health care in Canada, we applaud the Charest government for rethinking its idea of imposing a $25 user fee for medical visits.
Not only would the user fee violate...
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Thursday, Jun 17 2010
MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release
June 17, 2010
Leading economist shatters myth that public health care is ‘unsustainable’; pins blame for soaring costs on private health care spending
OTTAWA -- One of the world’s leading health economists came out swinging today, shattering the myth that public health care is unsustainable and laying the blame for rising costs at the...
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Friday, Jun 11 2010
The Montreal Gazette
June 9, 2010
QUEBEC - The province's auditor general - in this fourth report on the cost of Montreal's two new university teaching hospitals - reiterated Wednesday that building them as public-private partnerships will cost more than the conventional method.
In the National Assembly, Sylvain Simard of the Parti Québécois called the new report "the most...
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Monday, Oct 6 2008
October 6, 2008 - (Ottawa) - There is no evidence to support claims that increasing for-profit private elements in Canadian health care will improve care or reduce cost, according to a new report released on the eve of a National Day of Action for Medicare. The report written for the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is a summary of the private versus public health care debate in...
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Wednesday, Jul 16 2008
In July 2008, the CFNU gathered seventy-five health care experts from across the country, concerned about Canada’s public health care system, to identify Key Considerations for Canada’s Premiers. Here is our vision.
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Sunday, Jun 1 2008
One afternoon in 2006 the telephone rang in the communications office of a nurses’ union. On the other end was a political advisor from one of the provincial ministries. The caller was interested in arranging a meeting between government officials and union leaders. His objective: to “explain” the province’s alternative financing method for hospital construction, popularly...
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In this report, CFNU urges provincial and territorial premiers to call for federal "uploading" of provincial drug programs. CFNU President Linda Silas says that if Pharmacare is embraced by premiers, it could grant relief to the provinces and provide genuine benefits for all Canadians.
