Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canadas Health Care System
Caring For Profit traces how Canada's $77 billion a year health care industry is turning away from its original mandate of providing the best possible medical care to Canadians, and how multinational capital is forcing its way into our non-profit health care system.In Caring For Profit, Colleen Fuller traces alliances that were struck between private insurers and the medical profession during the 1950s and 1960s to defeat socialized medicine. These alliances survived the establishment of medicare in Canada in 1968, and have been strengthened by new forces emerging in an era of globalization. Instead of a health care system focused on providing the highest quality of care to the greatest number of Canadians, the system is increasingly dominated by financial giants more concerned with consolidations, mergers, acquisitions, and higher profit margins.Caring for Profit is a who's who of key people and corporations making money in Canada's health care sector - and a portrait of the strategies and alliances that threaten to replace the principles of medicare with the dictates of the stock market.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0921586590
ISBN13:9780921586593
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:New Star Books
Length:321 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
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The decline of Canada's health system-the full story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Colleen Fuller gives the reader the history of the Canadian medicare system from the Canada Health Act .and even before. She then chronicles how it is now starting to fall apart, and who is responsible. Most Canadians will find this book an eye opener because it will all seem so new to them. They are not used to getting bills for medical services rendered in their lifetime ,and in most provinces the people are walking around half dazed and feel helpless. This book will arm them with some valuable information. It is written by a truly dedicated professional.As a medical/health Journalist I read and write a lot of stuff, but I rarely write reviews. I was moved to do so for this wonderful book.
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