Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow is scheduled to give the closing speech at the ‘Beyond Acute Care: Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella’ conference on Saturday February 25 in Edmonton.
As noted on the conference web-page, “Beyond Acute Care: Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella, is sponsored by several organizations determined to protect, enhance and extend Canada’s and Alberta’s fair and efficient system of public administered, publicly funded and publicly operated system of Medicare. Among the conference sponsors are the United Nurses of Alberta, Public Interest Alberta, the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Health Sciences Association of Alberta and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. One of the key goals of this conference is to ensure that the need for a continuum of public health care, including care of the seniors who built our province, as well as the existing deficits in the system are acknowledged and acted on by the Alberta government. Conference organizers have invited participants from the United States and Europe because the problems and innovations alike of health care in those places provide a useful roadmap for Canadians as they struggle to improve our national health care system, and to resist the advocates of privatization who would take the worst and ignore the best ideas from abroad.”
To learn more about the February 24-25 conference, please see http://beyondacutecare.ca/.
To read more about the Council of Canadians campaign on the Canada Health Accord, see http://canadians.org/blog/?s=%22canada+health+accord%22.
