NEWS: Charlottetown chapter launches public healthcare campaign
As reported in The Guardian in Prince Edward Island, “Protecting Canada’s public health- care system is the focus of a new campaign announced by the Council of Canadians Wednesday. Called Best Kept Secret, the campaign will see 10 volunteer speakers traveling across the province in the next few months, making 30-minute PowerPoint presentations on how public health care benefits everyone and how privatization is not the solution to health-care problems in Canada.”
Along with some excellent quotes from Leo Broderick and Leo Cheverie, the article notes, “Since Nova Scotia allowed a private orthopedic surgery clinic to open in March, the presenters want to show how they feel that privatization and two-tiered systems end up costing more, don’t solve wait list problems, and drain the public system of health workers. Alternative models used in other cities across Canada to reduce wait lists will be shown to demonstrate possible solutions that don’t require privatization.”
The full article (and a great photo) is at http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=124879&sc=98.
To express your opposition to the decision by the Nova Scotia government to contract with a private orthopedic surgery clinic – as noted in the article – please go to Atlantic organizer Angela Giles’ action alert at http://www.canadians.org/action/2008/20-Mar-08.html.
To read more about the Best Kept Secret, visit our website at http://www.canadians.org/healthcare/index.html.
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