Women and Health Care in BC: A Gendered Perspective

A pamphlet outlining the ways in which health care user fees, increases in user fees, cuts to health care services, cuts to social service programs, legal aid, and welfare benefits all disproportionately affect women, since women in all age ranges and social groups make less money than men. The pamphlet analyzes BC's Medical Services Plan (MSP), PharmaCare, residential care versus assisted living, reductions in home care support services, and cuts to employment in the health sector, a sector predominantly staffed by women. It is critical of moves towards privatization in the health care system in BC and Canada more broadly, and encourages reinstituting funding for social services for women, such as the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC).