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Privatization of BC Health Care: Ontario Health Coalition, Health Action Assembly and Teach-In, July 28, 2004, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Caryn Duncan's Speaking Notes

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
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Agency: 
BC Health Coalition; Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2004
Pages: 
9
Summary: 
Speaking notes for Caryn Duncan, community co-chair of the BC Health Coalition and Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). The notes are for Ontario Health Coalition's Health Action Assembly and Teach-In, 2004. The speech describes the BC health system's turn towards privatization and the implications on BC residents. Duncan argues for an increase in health care funding, a commitment to public health care, and an end to the drive towards privatization.
Keywords: 
Caryn Duncan; BC Health Coalition; Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); privatization; BC health system; health care; funding cuts; cutbacks; public private partnerships (P3s); Pharmacare; Medical Services Plan (MSP); privacy; health care workers; women and work; wait lists; determinants of health; women's organizations;