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Colleen Fuller
Colleen Fuller is an independent health policy researcher whose areas of expertise include health care and pharmaceutical policy, privatization, public and private health insurance, trade/globalization and health care, and health industry investors. Follow Colleen on Twitter
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Canada desperately needs a public insulin manufacturer again
Insulin was discovered by four Canadians, who famously sold the patent for $1 each to the University of Toronto—enabling the public manufacture of the new…
20 years later: How corporations took over Canada’s health care system
Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking over Canada’s health care system was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and New Star…
The facts on Canadian health care can’t be Trumped
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Cambie s’en va en cour
L’assaut juridique contre le système universel de soins de santé Download 779.35 KB 42 pages Dès Novembre 2015, la Cour suprême de Colombie-Britannique entendra une…
Cambie Corp. Goes to Court
The Legal Assault on Universal Health Care Download 712.52 KB 40 pages This report examines recent attempts by private sector advocates to challenge the right…
Contracting Out: Enough to make you sick
There is now an accumulation of evidence, both international and domestic, that contracting out is good — but only if you happen to own shares…
The Lawsuit
The Lawsuit A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Brian Day and his followers had launched a lawsuit against the province, alleging that, “in…
The Budget: A Determinant of Health
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve…
What the FCUCC?!
More on the culture of entitlement… Mark Godley is the founder and head honcho of False Creek Surgical Clinic, one of the largest companies in…
The culture of entitlement
Don Copeman, of the infamous Vancouver clinic that bears his name, was plugging his business in Parksville’s local paper, the Oceanside Star. While doing so…
Chaoulli II?
So private surgical clinics, led by Brian Day, are suing the BC government so they can charge patients for services that they, the patients, already…