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Protecting public health care in the 2014 Health Care AccordCanada is facing an important next step in our medicare history. In 2014, the current health care accord – the deal that sets funding and health care service delivery agreements between the federal and provincial and territorial governments – expires and must be renegotiated. In the lead-up to these negotiations, we need to remind federal politicians of how much Canadians need and value our public health care system. Politicians have already begun meeting to talk about what the new accord should include. Instead of being at the table, and taking a leadership role in discussions, the Harper government announced in December 2011 it would provide limited federal financial transfers to the provinces and territories for the delivery of health care services. Essentially, the Harper government has reduced its role in Canada’s health care system to writing cheques (and not even ones that would cover the costs of the health care services Canadians need.) The Harper government has stated that health care is a “provincial jurisdiction,” signalling it does not support a national public medicare program. The Council of Canadians has always fought for strengthened public health care. We believe that everyone – Provincial and territorial governments, First Nations and the federal government – should come together to ensure the 2014 Health Care Accord delivers better, more efficient, quality public health care that includes a national pharmacare program and better home care and long term care for our aging population. All Canadians should have access to the same services and quality of care provided by a national, public system. We are holding townhalls, press conferences, organizing rallies, producing materials and lobbying politicians across Canada to help make this happen. We hope you will join us in the important fight for public health care. Take action!Send a letter today to Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Health Critic Libby Davies, your Premier and provincial Minister of Health asking them to improve public health care for all Canadians through the 2014 Health Care Accord at www.canadians.org/2014accord.
Take Action! Have your Council Chapter or local group sign onto the Canadian Health Coalition’s “Call to Care”Canadians need to have their message for a protected, strengthened and extended public health care system heard during the 2014 Health Care Accord negotiations. We can do this through people power – and lots of it! Please ask your Council of Canadians chapter, local community groups, unions, labour councils and others to consider signing onto the Canadian Health Coalition’s “Call to Care.” We’re hoping that thousands of groups, representing concerned people across Canada, will come together to deliver a strong message to provincial, territorial, and federal governments that Canadians want to secure the future of medicare. Below is a list of just a few of those signatories so you can get an idea of the diversity of groups involved. Read more » Health accord is about who we are as Canadians, packed town hall meeting hearsThe message was clear last night at a packed Victoria town hall meeting on the 2014 health accord: the provinces and federal government must work together to negotiate a new health accord that reflects Canadian values and addresses growing spending on for-profit care. Read more » Click the tabs above and visit the links in the left-hand column for information on privatization, trade implications for public health care, P3s, wait times, solutions and more.Media
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Profit Is Not the Cure 2010: Is the Canadian economy sustainable without medicare?
