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Marcy Cohen
Marcy Cohen is a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and an adjunct faculty member in Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She has co-authored a number of research and policy studies looking at public solutions to the current challenges in our health care system, including the 2007 CCPA publication Why Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists.
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The Hidden Costs of Health Care Wage Cuts in BC
Download 368.34 KB35 pages A companion piece to this paper, The Pains of Privatization: How Contracting Out Hurts Health Support Workers, Their Families and Health…
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The Pains of Privatization
How Contracting Out Hurts Health Support Workers, Their Families, and Health Care Download 475.55 KB53 pages A companion piece to this paper, The Hidden Costs…
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Untangling the spin about long-term care in BC
In recent months the provincial government has acknowledged that it has not delivered the 5,000 new long-term residential care beds promised during the last election.…
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Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat?
BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001-2004 Download 314 KB 53 pages Attachments BC Issues Primer: Cuts to Continuing Care
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Democratizing Public Services
Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC Download 225.31 KB45 pages Over the last 15 years there have been repeated…
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A Return to Wage Discrimination
Pay Equity Losses Through the Privatization of Health Care Download 220.05 KB26 pages Attachments French Summary: A Return to Wage Discrimination
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Health Care Restructuring in BC
Download 143.88 KB20 pages
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Healthy solutions to the crisis in Medicare
Canadians love having a public health care system. Recently, however, rising costs, new technologies, and an aging population have led many to think they have…
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