One of the goals of the BC Health Coalition is to engage with the media in order to inform citizens' of BC about key health care issues and how they can get involved to stregthen and protect public Medicare in British Columbia.
This section will list BCHC Media Releases (current and past), along with current Health Care News Stories. We also have a For the Media section which has a high resolution copy of our logo, information on upcoming events, and other useful information.
For immediate release – October 18, 2017 B.C. dealt $4.13 billion health funding shortfall in federal bilateral funding agreement: report Federal deals saddle provinces with a total $31 billion in health care cuts, no health accord following failed negotiations…Read More
Victoria (pdf version) — The BC Health Coalition says today's budget update is a strong start toward better health care for the people of B.C.…Read More
B.C. and Quebec top the list for illegal billing Vancouver – Surveys of hundreds of private health clinics and patients across Canada reveal that extra user-fees amounting to hundreds or thousands of dollars are threatening access to health care and hurting patients. A new cross-Canada study includes survey results of 136 private hospital, diagnostic and “boutique” physician clinics across Canada and almost 400 individual Ontario patients. Clinics and patients were asked about extra user-charges for needed health care services. …Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Civil society groups call on Greens and NDP to cooperate to move BC forward …Read More
