Canada's Drug Problem

DRUG INDEX




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Tommy Douglas
The Father of Medicare


Special Website








Canadian Health Coalition
Links Page








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 Archive





Reality Check on
public-private 'partnerships'



Shirley Douglas Receives
The Order of Canada








Health Protection &
Food Safety Archive

Health Care Archive








Harper warns Alberta:
'Third Way' scheme violates Canada Health Act

Read the Leaked Letter

More information on the Albert Government's
'Third Way' health care scheme







Essay on Health Care

CBC Radio's Sunday Morning with Michael Enright
(Audio, Duration: 4 Minutes, November 26, 2006)

Description: Michael Enright has some thoughts about the
Canadian healthcare system after having dinner with
an ex-pat friend, now living in the United States


Click here to listen to Michael's Essay



Public health care cheapest and best

Read the Editorial  |  Download the Harvard Press Release




Prescription for Excellence:
How Innovation is Saving Canada’s Health Care System

Download the book by Michael Rachlis, MD



CBC TV News (The National)
Decoding Privatization Code Words  |  Listen  |  Watch



Follow the Money
Canadian Health Coalition presentation
to the Standing Committee on Finance
Pre-Budget Consultations

click here to download the Finance Committee transcript

November 18, 2004




Pre-Budget Consultations Report
of the Standing Committee on Finance

Read an excerpt from the report
click here to download the full Finance Committee report

December 2004



Health Care costs more, delivers less at
investor-owned for-profit hospitals: Study

Press Release  |  Backgrounder  |  Study

Medicare in the North: On Thin Ice?
Read the Canadian Health Coalition Report

Circle of Care Held in Ottawa
Canadian Health Coalition Joins the
Assembly of First Nations


Kathleen Connors, CHC National Chairperson,
remarks to the CFNU "Celebration of Medicare"


New report on health care from the
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions :

Can we afford to sustain Medicare ?
Download the new report  |  Summary

The Business Case for Medicare

Physicians for a National Health Program
Presentation on the U.S. Health Care System

Shirley Douglas presentation to the
1998 CAW Political Action Conference

Listen to Shirley's powerful speech
  (MP3 format)

Budget 2004 Reaction  |  Alternative Federal Budget

A 'Caring Society,' Paul Martin style:
The former finance minister did more to destroy the
foundations of Medicare than any other politician


Medicare Protection Pledge Website

Federal government fights judicial review
of its record defending Medicare

Download Backgrounder
  |  More on the lawsuit ...


Senators ask Supreme Court to strike down Medicare
Click here for information on the Chaoulli case


Health Council Good Step Forward
Toronto Star Editorial Board


Canada-U.S. Gap in Health Care Grows
Media  |  New England Journal of Medicine
(August 2003)

8000 American Doctors Call for a
Canadian-Style Health Care Plan

(August 2003)


Download the Canadian Health Coalition
Health Care Index


Sustaining Medicare: A Call to Care
(August 2003)


SARS: Ottawa Missing in Action
The Absence of Federal Leadership on SARS
1994 Warning of New Diseases 'Sat on Shelf'

SARS: A Costly Error
(Summer-Fall 2003)

After 20 Years, Canada's
Dean of Nursing Retires

Seen But Never Silent, a Nursing Legend Retires
Linda Silas Wins Race to Lead Canada’s Nurses


National Forum on Health Website

Analysis of the 2003 Federal Budget

Download the First Ministers' Health Accord
  English  |  Français  |  Analysis  |  Media Coverage


Accountability: Canadians' Attitudes
Towards Health Care Spending

(CUPE/Pollara Study, 2003)


History of Medicare in Canada
(Canadian Health Coalition, Updated 2003)


Million Signature Health Care Campaign
(April 2003)


Health Care Advocates Appear Before
House of Commons Health Committee

(House of Commons, February 2003)


Death and the Market:
The Questionable Impact of Competition
on Health Care Quality in the United Kingdom

(January 2003)


Auditor General Issues Scathing Report on the
Delivery of Health Care in Canada

(October 2002)


Alberta Senior Files Lawsuit
Over Private Clinic

(October 2002)


58 million Americans Lack Health Insurance
(British Medical Journal, September 2002)


Articles by Ethicist Arthur Schafer,
Director of the Centre for Professional and
Applied Ethics at University of Manitoba

(September 2002)


Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the
Big 3 Auto Makers Support Medicare

(September 2002)


Solving the Health Care Sustainability Puzzle
(CMAJ, July 2002)


Medicare: It's Decision Time
(Tom Kent, June 2002)


Latest CIHI Report Highlights Regional Differences In Health Care Services And Outcomes Of Care
(CIHI, May 2002)


Canada Health Act: Purpose & Requirements
(Canadian Health Coalition)


Letter from Federal Health Minister
Anne McLellan to Alberta's Health Minister Regarding Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

Analysis of the Alberta Government's
Mazankowski Report on Health Care

(CUPE/FOM, 2002)

Budget Analysis: Impact of the
2001 Federal Budget on Health Care

(CUPE, December 2001)

Primary Health Care Reform
Discussion Paper

La réforme des soins primaires: un document de travail
(Canadian Health Coalition, 2001)

Home Care Research Paper:
What We Have and What We Need

(Canadian Health Coalition, 2001)

Mobilizing for Medicare
(CLC/CHC, October 2001)

The Report of the Fyke Commission on
Health Care in Saskatchewan

(Saskatchewan Government, April 2001)

King’s Health Centre and the Alliance to
Destroy Medicare

(Canadian Health Coalition, November 2000)

Medicare Newsletter
(Canadian Health Coalition, Fall 2000)

Protecting Privacy and Health Information:
A Brief to the Standing Committee on Industry
on the Matter of Bill C-54

(Canadian Health Coalition, 1999)


New Study Finds Home Care More
Cost-Effective than Residential Care

(November 1999)


Health Care Fact Sheets
(Canadian Health Coalition, 1998)

Ensuring Medicare's Future:
A Submission to the Department of Finance

(Canadian Health Coalition, December 1998)