Home arrow News arrow BC Health Care Legislation
BC Health Care Legislation Bookmark and Share

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:

Bill 22    Health Care Costs Recovery Act                 
Bill 23    Public Health Act                              
Bill 24    E-Health (Personal Health Information Access and Protection of Privacy) Act       
Bill 25    Health Professions (Regulatory Reform) Amendment Act, 2008

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