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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    A summary of four case studies dissecting the relationship between the health of an individual and that individual's social living circumstances.

Experts on Health Policy in the Sources Directory

  1. Association of Local Public Health Agencies
  2. Campaign Life Coalition
  3. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
  4. Canadian Dental Hygienists Association
  5. Canadian Down Syndrome Society
  6. Canadian Prostate Cancer Network (CPCN) -- The Voice of Prostate Cancer in Canada
  7. Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
  8. College of Nurses of Ontario
  9. College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
  10. College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario
  11. Health Nexus
  12. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
  13. Hospital Employees' Union
  14. IMS HEALTH Canada
  15. McMaster University
  16. NDMAC, Advancing Canadian Self-care
  17. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
  18. Ontario Nurses' Association
  19. Ontario Public Health Association
  20. Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
  21. Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario
  22. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
  23. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
  24. Saint Elizabeth Health Care
  25. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
  26. VON

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