There is now an accumulation of evidence, both international and domestic, that contracting out is good — but only if you happen to own shares in MDS, Sodexho, LifeLabs, Compass, Aramark or any number of other piggybackers. Unfortunately, if you are merely a patient, taxpayer and/or hospital worker you are probably getting sicker, paying more [...]
Colleen Fuller’s Blog Posts
Colleen Fuller is a health and prescription drug policy researcher, a co-founder of PharmaWatch and Women & Health Protection, and a member of the BC Health Coalition. Colleen has focused much of her writing on corporate incursions into Canada's health care and insurance system systems. Her published work includes Caring for Profit (CCPA, New Star Books, 1998) and The Bottom Line (with Diana Gibson, NeWest Press, 2006), and numerous articles and papers.
Contracting Out: Enough to make you sick
March 21st, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
The Lawsuit
March 4th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
The Lawsuit
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Brian Day and his followers had launched a lawsuit against the province, alleging that, “in contravention of the value of individual choice,” the Medicare Protection Act restricts or prohibits patients from “accessing the private health care of their choice”. Day & Co. brazenly admit in their [...]
The Budget: A Determinant of Health
February 19th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true.
We’ve had a lot of budgets like this in B.C., so this one is in keeping with its right wing predecessors. During the 1980s, for example, the never-ending Social Credit government used [...]
Tags: budget·David Gordon·health care costs·living wage·poverty·public sector·service cuts·Social Credit
What the FCUCC?!
February 10th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
More on the culture of entitlement…
Mark Godley is the founder and head honcho of False Creek Surgical Clinic, one of the largest companies in BC providing a range of surgical and medical services, including women’s health and gynecology, plastic surgery, pain management, cardiology, colonoscopies, general surgery, you name it, they’ve got it. Like Copeman, Godley [...]
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The culture of entitlement
February 7th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
Don Copeman, of the infamous Vancouver clinic that bears his name, was plugging his business in Parksville’s local paper, the Oceanside Star. While doing so he managed to slag Canadians whose “culture of entitlement”, he charges, is the biggest obstacle to private clinics. “Trying to change the Canadian culture away from this culture of entitlement [...]
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Chaoulli II?
January 30th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
So private surgical clinics, led by Brian Day, are suing the BC government so they can charge patients for services that they, the patients, already pay for through their taxes. What a surprise. Dr Day (aka Dr Profit) unveiled the lawsuit at a news conference on Wednesday at the Plaza 500 in Vancouver. I’d love [...]
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