1. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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. The Canadian Health Coalition
   Organization profile published 1983
   Resource Type: Organization
   First Published: 1983   Published: 2007
   Dedicated to protecting and expanding Canada's public health system for the benefit of all Canadians.
   
4. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1982
   
5. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1980
   
6. Connexions Annual Overview: Health
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
   
7. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1989   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.
8. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
9. Connexions Library: Health Focus 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
10. 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.
11. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
12. Health care monopoly
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
13. Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
14. Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
15. The High Price of Health
    A Patient's Guide to the Hazards of Medical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
16. Life Before Medicare
    Canadian Experiences
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
17. Medicare: On the Critical List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
    
18. The National Health Program Book
    A Source Guide for Advocates
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
19. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
    Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
    
20. No Strikes in Canada over health care
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
21. 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.
22. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    
23. 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.
24. Radical Digressions 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
25. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
26. Second Opinion
    What's Wrong With Canada's Health Care System and How to Fix It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
27. Social Determinants of Health
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
28. Strong Medicine
    How to Save Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
29. Take Care
    Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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?"
    
30. Ten Health Care Myths 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
31. Testimony of David U. Himmelstein, M.D. before the HELP Subcommittee
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A single-payer reform would make care affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits. As my colleagues and I have shown in research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. In other words, if we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we'd save nearly $400 billion annually - more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans.
32. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
33. User Charges, Snares and Delusions
    Another Look at the Literature
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    
34. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.

Experts on Health Care in Canada in the Sources Directory

1. The Arthritis Society
2. BC Nurses' Union
3. Canadian Encyclopedia
4. Canadian Snowbird Association
5. Canadian Union of Public Employees
6. Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
7. Connexions Information Sharing Services
8. Consumer Health Products Canada
9. Hospital Employees' Union
10. Novus Health
11. Ontario Nurses' Association
12. Saint Elizabeth Health Care
13. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
14. Sources
15. United Nurses of Alberta
16. University of Winnipeg