Who will defend public health care against Brian Day?
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- Published on Sunday, 23 April 2017 12:15
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On Thursday, a Liberal candidate in Port Moody Coquitlam said she supported private health care for "those who are able to afford it." [1]
This sounds dangerously like opening the door to American style two-tiered care - and comes just after Health Minister Terry Lake let it slip that his government is trying to change the rules to sanction a private hospital sector in B.C. [2]
This is especially scary because whoever gets elected on May 9th will be the government defending public health care against Brian Day's legal attack in court this fall.
We need to act fast to show our political parties that voters don't want more privatized health care for B.C. Can you pledge to vote for public health care... to show the parties that you want better public health care for everyone, not private care for an elite few?
We've seen what happens when private care is allowed in the door - in England it's eroded the National Health Service so that a few wealthy people get better care while everyone else has to make due in a starved public system.
So many in B.C. are already struggling to make ends meet. The last thing we need is new sky high private health care fees.
We need leaders who will stand up to people like Brian Day and defend the system regular people rely on.
Show the parties that you want health care in B.C. to stay public and to get better for everyone by pledging to vote for public health care now.
Yours for fair care for all,
Adam
Sources:
[1] BC Liberal candidate supports privatizing healthcare for the wealthy
[2] Retiring B.C. health minister, Terry Lake, contemplates his next chapter
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