PROFIT® and the anatomy of a so-called crisis

When pushers of for-profit medicine refer to Canada’s health care “crisis,” they rarely point to the original source of the problem: the massive federal cuts to health care in the mid-1990s. This resulted in increased wait times and a shortage of doctors and nurses across the country.

Since then, provincial governments have begun turning to the private sector for solutions, even if all the evidence proves that this will be more expensive, drain the public system of resources, and lead to longer wait times.

PROFIT® is not the cure for Canada’s health care system. Privatizing health care will only benefit those who can afford to pay, and will allow some doctors, business people and corporations to make money off sick and injured Canadians.

Resources:

Canada's Health Care 'Crisis': How valid is the alarm behind Campbell's Euro tour?
The Tyee | Tom Sandborn | April 11, 2006

Our Manufactured Health Care Crisis: Governments Cut Taxes to Deny Themselves Medicare Funding
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Armine Yalnizyan & Charles E. Pascal | October 1, 2004

Health Care Cuts: Who’s to Blame? (PDF)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | David Robinson | September 11, 2000