The next wave of privatization attacks is upon us
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Dear Paov,
At the BC Health Coalition, we spent more than a decade engaged in the Cambie Case, which was finally settled this year. Together, we successfully defended our public healthcare system from those who sought to create preferential access based on the ability to pay.
Having lost the legal battle for private financing, privatization proponents now have a refreshed strategy: private delivery. While private providers have long been part of our health care system, we're seeing a fresh wave of privatization as investor-driven corporate providers aggressively lobby provinces for a greater role in healthcare delivery within our publicly funded system.
We’re pushing back. Join the BC Health Coalition on November 20, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm, for an in-person Townhall in Vancouver. Click here for more information on the event and to secure your spot.
There is money to be made through government contracts, and investor-owned companies are skilled at squeezing out profits from the public purse.
But the evidence is quite clear on contracting healthcare to the private sector: private delivery costs more to the public, does... not shorten wait times, and is associated with lower quality of care and worse health outcomes. Worst of all, private providers tend to be successful at recruiting from the finite pool of healthcare workers, leaving the public system even more strained - and ever more likely to contract out more and more services.
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), one of Medicare’s strongest historical opponents, has joined privatization proponents in normalizing profit-driven delivery. The CMA is sponsoring a cross-country conversation about the role of private providers in health care. They’ll be in Vancouver on November 23rd, at a Globe & Mail hosted event focused on “new players” (read: for-profit companies) in the health care landscape.
As defenders of our public health care system, we need an organized strategy to resist this new wave of privatization tactics.
Join us in sticking up for public health care on November 20, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Click here for more information on the event and to secure your spot.
We have an exciting lineup of speakers planned that you won’t want to miss. Check out information about our speakers and panelists here! They will examine the overwhelming evidence against growing the role of private for-profit providers and discuss alternative public solutions that strengthen the public system most of us rely on. We’ll make a plan together to organize a delegation to stick up for public health care solutions at the CMA event later that week. If you’re planning on joining the delegation, be sure to register for the CMA event here.
Together, we won Cambie, ensuring health care access will continue to be based on need and not the ability to pay. We hope you can join us in this next chapter of sticking up for public health care.
Sincerely,
Audrey Guay (she/her)
Organizer, BC Health Coalition
https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/
British Columbia Health Coalition · 3102 Main St, 302,
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, BC V5T 3G7, Canada
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