Press Release

(.pdf version) The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the extent to which our individual health is dependent on the health of everyone in our community. Public healthcare is our best defense against this crisis and others like it. However, our ability to endure crises and care for each other has been eroded through decades of austerity budgets, privatization and inadequate planning. Even during "normal times," the health care system is at capacity.…Read More

For immediate release Monday, December 2, 2019 A new poll finds that 90% of British Columbians agree that access to healthcare in the province should be based on need rather than ability to pay.…Read More

For immediate release (Unceded Coast Salish Territories - Vancouver, BC) On Monday, November 18th, final arguments began in the Charter challenge that put public health care on trial.…Read More

BC Health Coalition urges all parties to adopt the Advisory Committee's recommendations Vancouver ­– The BC Health Coalition is celebrating the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare's recommendation to create a universal public pharmacare program.…Read More

Counsel for Attorney General of Canada opens with argument that striking down public health care law would “turn back the clock” on health care in Canada, lead to major health inequality April 16, 2019 (Vancouver) For the first time since the trial began in 2016, the BC Supreme Court will hear from defendants and intervenors in the constitutional challenge to Canadian public health care launched by private, for-profit clinic CEO Brian Day.…Read More

BC Health Coalition celebrates investments in Pharmacare and the elimination of MSP fees…Read More

Surrey- The BC Health Coalition is in Surrey today to welcome the Minister of Health’s announcement that the province is purchasing two private, for-profit MRI clinics in order to make use of them in the public system.…Read More

For immediate release (Unceded Coast Salish Territories - Vancouver, BC) On Friday, July 6th, Brian Day’s private, for-profit clinic Cambie Surgeries filed an injunction application to stop the province’s enforcement law against extra-billing, the Medicare Protection Amendment Act (Bill 92), from coming into force on October 1st, 2018. In addition to the increased enforcement measures, the province committed to completing thousands of more surgeries and diagnostic tests in the public system in order to alleviate wait times.…Read More

Team-based strategy will ensure faster and more appropriate care For immediate release…Read More

BC Health Coalition present symbolic $15.9 million invoice to private clinics May 1, 2018 For immediate release  …Read More