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The BC Government has recently passed a number of new health care bills. Bill 21, the Medicare Protection Amendment Act serves to add "sustainability" as the sixth principle of Medicare. This addition may directly threaten the ability for all citizens and patients to have equal access to health care regardless of their ability to pay. To learn more about what others are saying about Bill 21 CLICK HERE To read more about "sustainability" of our health care system CLICK HERE To read warnings from a recent presentation by Marie Claude Premont, Health Law Professor in Quebec CLICK HERE Other new health care bills include: To read the debate on the Bills in the Legislature CLICK HERE
Privacy advocates take aim at eHealth Legislation The new eHealth legislation - BIll 24 - will allow the Provincial Government to create massive electronic databanks of citizens' personal health information and to override citizens’ long-cherished rights to privacy and to doctor/patient confidentiality. BCHC member organization, the BC Persons with Aids Society, along with other groups, are calling for Bill 24 to be redrafted with the right of patient consent and control enshrined, with only strictly limited exceptions for emergencies and audits. To download the BCPWA info kit on Bill 24 CLICK HERE |










