Health, health care system, pharmacare
ROY ROMANOW (Commissioner, The Future of Health Care): As you know it was just a year and a half ago that the Prime Minister established the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada and gave me the honour of serving as its sole commissioner.
I must stop there to say that people often ask me afterwards; what’s it been like travelling the country and going here, there and everywhere and trying to sort out the complex issues of this very complex and important program.
Thank you for this opportunity to speak to Bill 8 – a Bill that seeks to protect Ontarians’ right to universal public health care.
Caring For Profit tells how Canada's $75 billion-a-year health care system is abandoning its mandate to provide the best possible medical care to Canadians and instead turning Medicare over to transnational corporations.
In this book, Collen Fuller traces alliances between private insurers and the medical profession and provides a "who's who" of the key people and corporations making money in Canada's health care sector. She exposes the strategies and alliances which threaten to replace the principles of Medicare with the rules of the stock market.
In this CCPA book, Health and Wealth, economic consultant and social policy specialist Monica Townson explains why the goal of assuring maximum health for all Canadians will never be achieved unless all levels of government get serious about addressing the socioeconomic root causes of ill-health.