Jacques Chaoulli "At this private clinic, even a dead man had to wait." Special Romanow Commission Website Powerful testimony from Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emiritus Harvard Medical School Senator Kirby's Conflict of Interest  Medicare Protection Pledge Website Health Care Privatization Archives	Chaoulli v. Québec Read the Supreme Court Decision COURT CASE FACTUMS, ARGUMENTS AND MORE Chaoulli's back, now as private health broker Critics say care model is biggest threat to Quebec medicare yet National Review of Medicine / MAY 30, 2007, VOLUME 4 NO. 10 Jacques Chaoulli launches medical brokering service  (May 2007) Read the Media Coverage and Analysis Wait-Time Guarantees for Health Services An analysis of Québec's approach [UPDATED] By Marie-Claude Prémont Submission to the Health Law Journal, Edmonton, September 2007 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WAIT-TIME GUARANTEES FOR HEALTH SERVICES: AN ANALYSIS OF QUEBEC’S APPROACH By Marie-Claude Prémont, Professor, Faculty of Law and Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University ENGLISH VERSION Translated by Bob Chodos and Susan Joanis VERSION FRANÇAISE First published in Les Cahiers de Droit, September 2006, Vol. 47, No. 3 Chaoulli copycat cases crop up across country Using Quebec's landmark Supreme Court decision as a precedent, more Canadians challenge single-payer system National Review of Medicine   /  January 15, 2007 Volume 4 No. 1 Québec opens the door to 2-tier health care Click here for more information Ontario health care target of Chaoulli-like constitutional challenge Click here for more information The Chaoulli v. Québec Decision Action Alert  Summer / Fall 2005  |  Version Française RESPONSE OF THE INTERVENER The Charter Committee on Poverty Issues and Canadian Health Coalition  |  Press Release Filed: July 11, 2005 Canadian Health Coalition  BACKGROUNDER Senators ask Supreme Court to strike down Medicare CASE ARCHIVES  |  SENATOR KIRBY'S CONFLICT  |  MEDIA Concerned Canadian citizens arrive at the Supreme Court on a double-decker bus to symbolize the threat of two-tier health care posed by the controversial Chaoulli case (Ottawa, June 8, 2004) Charest Government's plan to destroy Medicare exposed by legal experts ENGLISH  |  VERSION FRANÇAISE Group Offers Health Plan Alternative Gazette  |  Le Soleil  |  La Presse  |  Download Plan Supreme Court suspends judgment on private health services for 12 months Don't Panic: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Chaoulli, Wait Times and the Politics of Private Insurance By Tom McIntosh / February 2006 Inside the Chaoulli Decision: CUPE Backgrounder Canadian Union of Public Employees / September 2005 The Chaoulli Case: Resources and Commentary (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law / July 2005) Supreme Court ruling oblivious to trade treaty threats Scott Sinclair / Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Trade Trojan Horse puts Medicare at Risk Notes from presentation by Jim Grieshaber-Otto and Noel Schacter Québec asks top court for 18-month delay in lifting ban on private health care   July 2005 Canadian Medical Association Journal Reaction Editorial: Lament for a health care system Physicians, it's in your court now Supreme Court slaps for-sale sign on Medicare Reaction to the Chaoulli Decision Canadian Health Coalition Reaction Charter Committee on Poverty Issues Reaction Alberta Friends of Medicare Reaction Ontario Health Coalition Reaction Réaction : Coalition Solidarité Santé Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Reaction British Columbia Nurses Union Reaction Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Reaction Canadian Labour Congress Canadian Union of Public Employees Reaction The Council of Canadians Reaction U.S. Physcians for a National Health Program Reaction ROY ROMANOW ON THE CHAOULLI DECISION Marie-Claude Prémont on the Decision (Français) Thomas Walkom on the Chaoulli decision Gregory P. Marchildon on the Decision MORE REACTION TO THE SUPREME COURT DECISION JUNE 16, 2005 / MONTREAL, QUÉBEC An Appeal to the Québec Government from the Coalition Solidarité de la Santé (Québec Health Coalition) Version Française  |  English Translation Media Advisory (June 8, 2005) Medicare's Future at Stake