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  1. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
  2. Canadian Doctors for Medicare
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    One of the chief aims of Canadian Doctors for Medicare (CDM) is to provide a counterpoint to organizations and interests advocating for two-tier medicine. Equally important, CDM's voice will complement the advocacy of other groups seeking to preserve and improve Medicare and fight against privatization.
  3. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  4. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  5. Connexions Library: Health
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  6. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
  7. Health care monopoly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1998
    Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
  8. Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
  9. Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
  10. The High Price of Health
    A Patient's Guide to the Hazards of Medical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  11. The National Health Program Book
    A Source Guide for Advocates
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
  12. No Strikes in Canada over health care
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  13. Ontario Health Coalition
    Organization profile published 2006

    Resource Type: Organization
    Network of grassroots community organizations representing virtually all areas of Ontario. Our primary goal is to empower the members of our constituent organizations to become actively engaged in the making of public policy on matters related to health care and healthy communities.
  14. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  15. Profit is not the Cure
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site sponsored by the Council of Canadians to defend public health care. Turn off the sound when visiting this Web site; a badly misguided Web designer has saddled this site with sound effects apparently intended to drive users away so they never come back.
  16. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
  17. Second Opinion
    What's Wrong With Canada's Health Care System and How to Fix It
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  18. Strong Medicine
    How to Save Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
  19. Take Care
    Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
  20. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
  21. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  22. User Charges, Snares and Delusions
    Another Look at the Literature
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994

Experts on Health Care in Canada in the Sources Directory

  1. Canada Health Infoway
  2. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
  3. Canadian Snowbird Association
  4. Canadian Union of Public Employees
  5. Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
  6. Connexions Information Sharing Services
  7. Dr. Kenny Handelman
  8. Hospital Employees' Union
  9. IMS HEALTH Canada
  10. NDMAC, Advancing Canadian Self-care
  11. Ontario Homeopathic Association
  12. Ontario Nurses' Association
  13. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
  14. Saint Elizabeth Health Care
  15. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
  16. Sources
  17. Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada
  18. University of Winnipeg
  19. VON

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