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Call on your City Hall to protect public health care! 

Call on your City Hall to protect public health care!  Next month municipal governments from around the province will gather to address common issues and advance shared concerns at the Union of BC Municipalities AGM.

The cities of Victoria and New Westminster have brought forward a resolution that calls on the province to stop the expansion of for-profit surgical and MRI/CT clinics. These businesses lead to unequal, two-tier care that most of us can't afford. It's special treatment for the very wealthy that leaves the rest of us worse off - with dirty hospitals and declining care.

TAKE ACTION!

CLICK HERE to e-mail your Municipal Council and ask that it support this pro-public healthcare resolution when it comes to the floor.  If this resolution passes, it will send an important signal to the provincial government and the private, for-profit clinic owners who are setting up shop in B.C.


 

Home and Community Care: saves money. saves lives.

 

 

 

 

Seniors' Care: Health Coalition urges province to act on key recommendations



Letter to Premier commends BC government for accepting four of the Ombudsperson’s recommendations on seniors' care, urges follow through on remaining six

The BC Health Coalition is calling on the BC government to implement each of the ten recommendations outlined in the provincial Ombudsperson’s report on senior’s care in residential care facilities in British Columbia.

Read the BC Health Coalition Letter to the Premier.

Read the Response from Pemiere Campbell.

Read the BC Health Coalition February 23 News Release

Read the Ombudsperson's December 2009 first report on care of seniors.

Read the summary list of Ombudsperson's findings and recommendations.

TAKE ACTION!

CLICK HERE to tell the BC government to support family and resident councils! Send a letter letting it know that you expect timely and full implementation of the Ombudsperson's recommendations.  
 
CLICK HERE to e-mail Premier Campbell and demand he improve the lives of seniors and people with disabilities!
 

 

Medicare: it's got us covered.Round One Victory!

Courts allow BC Health Coalition to participate in private clinics lawsuit

November 17, 2009 - Today the courts annouced that the BC Health Coalition and their pro-medicare partners will participate as intervenors in the pivotal B.C. Supreme Court legal challenge launched by Dr. Brian Day and a consortium of private for-profit clinics against the B.C. Medical Services Commission and the provincial government. 

CLICK HERE to read Madame Justice Smith's decision.

CLICK HERE to read recent articles about the case.

CLICK HERE to read some of the court proceedings and our application for standing.

TAKE ACTION!

CLICK HERE to e-mail Health Minister Kevin Falcon and demand that he defend Medicare in the courts!