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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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Government Not Enforcing Health Laws
The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister…
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Supreme Court ruling bolsters need for public solutions
Anatole France, the famous French historian, in 1894 noted the irony that “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the…
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BC Government should not cave in to private clinics
It hasn’t been often that we at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have found occasion to applaud the BC government for one of its…
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Health Care Restructuring in BC
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Private clinics no help to Canada’s public health care system
The election campaign has re-opened the debate about private clinics. Promoters of these clinics argue they will decrease waiting times and supplement, not undercut, the…
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Health Accord is welcome, but national standards still in jeopardy
The federal government deserves credit for finally acknowledging that a decade of health spending cuts has taken a toll on medicare. And provincial, territorial and…
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Private clinics won’t cut waiting times
Recent revelations about private surgical clinics in Vancouver offering quick service to patients willing to pay a “facility fee” have once again sparked debate about…
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Caring for Profit
How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada’s Health Care System Caring For Profit tells how Canada’s $75 billion-a-year health care system is abandoning its mandate to…
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