Public Private Partnerships
Powerful testimony from
Dr. Arnold Relman,
Professor Emiritus
Harvard Medical School
Conflict of Interest
in For-Profit Hospitals
Privatization Archive
Pay More and Get Less
NEW: Private Clinics Report
Eroding Public Medicare: Costs and Consequences
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Groundbreaking report on the growth and practices of for-profit
surgical, MRI and boutique physician clinics across Canada (Oct. 6, 2008)
Where are they?
How are they making their profits?
Where do they get their staff?
How are they promoting two-tier health care?
What does this mean for public health care in Canada?
Download the New Report Version Française
New Study: Driven by Dogma? Outsourcing in the health service
Executive summary: This research is a qualitative investigation of some
of the emerging and persistent challenges that exist when the private sector is
involved in the tendering for, and delivery of, public services in the health sector.
The research was conducted by the Office for Public Management, an independent
public interest company, on behalf of UNISON, UK's largest public sector union.
Read the Press Release:
UNISON calls for re-think of NHS outsourcing
Download the New Study:
Driven by Dogma? Outsourcing in the health service
UNISON, December 5, 2008
CMA to set up patient advocacy group Health Edition, Aug. 29, 2008
Québec's 2-tier system a massive subsidy to big pharma Montreal Gazette, Aug. 2008
Québec report rings health care alarm Toronto Star / February 25, 2008
More Castonguay report coverage February 19-22, 2008
No Proof Private Clinics Work BBC News / February 22, 2008
Questions raised about new hospital deserve answers Globe and Mail / January 8, 2008
Hospital privatization a `disturbing picture' Toronto Star / January 8, 2008
Market-based failure: 2nd opinion on US health care New England Journal of Medicine / Feb. 7, 2008
Privatized medical care no cure for waiting lists Toronto Star / September 18, 2007
Private care - corporate welfare scheme Guardian / September 2007
Documents expose flaws in P3 hospital financing: coalition Canadian Press / May 2007
U.S. firms could move in on Canadian health-care Canadian Press / April 2007
The Hidden Costs of Private Clinics Toronto Star / March 2007
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Québec opens door to 2-tier health care Canadian Media Coverage 2007
Silent revelations about the American Way Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 2007
Two-tier care means a rich tier, a poor tier Globe and Mail / Jan. 2006
Want runaway health costs? Encourage private clinics. Colleen Fuller, Dec. 2006
Montreal leads the country in offering private health care Montreal Gazette / Feb. 2005
Canada Health Act Annual Report
Information on Private For-Profit Facilities Missing
Essay on Health Care
CBC Radio's Sunday Morning with Michael Enright
(Audio, Duration: 4 Minutes, November 26, 2006)
Click here to listen to Michael's Essay
Ontario 2-tier clinics contravene Canada Health Act and Ontario Law
Ontario Health Coalition Legal Opinion January 2006
Physicians for a National Health Program
Slideshow Presentation (Power Point)
CHC ACTION ALERT STOP PRIVATIZATION (Fall 2005)
Market Principles, Business Practices and Health Care:
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian Experiences DOWNLOAD STUDY
Exposed: Secret 1996 Agreement exposed between the Feds and Alberta CHC Archive
Patients receive fewer services from for-profit hospice providers (Medscape News, April 2004)
Health lobby blasts DND for outsourcing care Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 2004
Lawsuit rattles Calian investors Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 2004
Gordon Campbell's Surgical Strike: Thousands of Surgeries to be Privatized June 2003
BC Nurses Demand Halt to Talks with US Health Giant April 2003
Ottawa Orders Private Clinic to Suspend Controversial Cancer Test Globe and Mail, March 2003
MRI Fund Misused Toronto Star, February 2003
Higher Death Rates in For-Profit Dialysis Clinics JAMA, November 2002
Pettigrew flip-flops on private health care
Ottawa opens up Medicare to privatization April 2004
Prescription for Excellence
How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health Care System
By Micheal Rachlis, MD
Preface and Chapter #12 "Beware of Snake Oil: The Private Sector has no Panacea"
Documents confirm massive hospital privatization in Ontario (May 2004)
Ontario Health Coalition Media Release
Media Coverage | CHC letter to Health Minister Pettigrew
For-profit health care would drive up costs by $7.2 billion a year: study
Canadian Press / June 2004
Press Release | Backgrounder | Download Study
Canadian Health Coalition Reality Check: Delivery Matters
Health Care Reality Check Series
For-Profit MRI Clinics are Dangerous
Reality Check on MRI/CT Clinics
Kirby Report: A Recipe for Commercialization CHC, Dec. 2001
More on Senator Kirby's Conflict of Interest
For-Profit Health Care: Expensive, Inefficient and Inequitable
Presentation by Dr. Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, to the Canadian Senate
Kathleen Connors, Canadian Health Coalition Chair,
Presentation on Public-Private Partnerships
Public-Private Partnerships or Private Exploitation of the Public
CHC Reality Check on Public-Private Partnerships
Canada's Romance with Market Medicine The American Prospect, Oct. 2002
Higher Death Rates in For-Profit Hospitals
Power Point Presentation Explaining the Study
CBC Exposé on Private, For-Profit
Delivery of Diagnostic Services
Read the Diagnosticare Letters Oct. 2002
The Shouldice Centre: A Model For Medicare? CHC Reality Check Series, November 2002
For-Profit Health Care: It's to Die For Linda McQuaig, October 2002
The Truth About the Swedish Privatization Experience October 2002
Ottawa Must Move to Save Medicare CHC, September 2002
How for-profit health corporationsare planning to cash-in on Medicare Polaris Institute, Sept. 2002
Scanning for profit: Critical Review of for-profit MRI and CT clinics Ont. Health Coalition, Sept. 2002
Experts Tell Romanow: Public-Private Partnerships Are Not the Answer May 2002
American HMO Expert Dr. Linda Peeno Appears Before Romanow Commission May 2002
Make The Sick Pay: CD Howe Institute May 2002
Criticisms of Private Medical Insurance by the UK Office of Fair Trading 2002
Canada Sees a Bigger Role for Private Health Care BMJ, February 2002
Health Care, Limited: The Privatization of Medicare CHC/CCPA/COC, November 2001
Don't Go There: Alberta's Experiment with For-Profit Health Care Gillian Steward, October 2001
Public Bodies, Private Parts: Surgical Contracts and Conflict of Interest Gillian Steward, March 2001
Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking Over Canada's health care system Colleen Fuller, 2000
Overview: Commercialization of public hospital-based services in Alberta Richard Plain, March 2000
Private Highway, One-Way Street: The Deklein and Fall of Canadian Medicare March 2000
Women, Privatization and Health Care Reform: The Ontario Case Pat & Hugh Armstrong, Dec. 1999
Submission to the Romanow Commission
by for-profit health care proponent Dr. Brian Day
More information on Dr. Brian Day
Public funds are for patients, not profits!