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HEALTH CARE P3S:
A POISON PILL FOR HEALTH CARE

Tell Premier Campbell how you feel about P3s in your community!

P3s (Public-Private Partnerships) are another term for an unpopular concept:  privatization.

In a typical P3 deal, for-profit corporations win a contract to finance, design, build, and own health care facilities and deliver some health care services.  Contracts often commit the government to lease the health care facility and some services from the private companies for a period of 30 years or more.  

The B.C. government’s campaign of privatizing health care with P3s has the following side effects:

  • Increased debt
  • Higher fees
  • Poor services
  • Corporate control of health care facilities
  • Lack of access to information
  • Sweat shop labour
  • Reduced hygiene and standards

Instead of P3s, we should finance health projects with public money and make sure that health care is operated on a not-for-profit basis. This would be cheaper, more accountable, and offer higher quality health care to British Columbians.

Take Action now and write Premier Campbell to tell him that you want public (not P3) health facilities in your community!

Not sure if there is a P3 in your community? Refer to the list below and then modify your letter in the space below.

 Health Care P3s in BC:

  • Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre
  • Kelowna Hospital Tower
  • Royal Jubilee Tower (Victoria)
  • Surrey Outpatient Hospital
  • Vancouver Hospital Ambulatory Care (Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre)
  • Vernon Jubilee Tower

Facilities in the bid process:

  • BC Cancer Agency's Centre for the North (Prince George)
  • Fort St. John Hospital and Residential Care Centre

Facilities that may become P3s if they go ahead:

  • North Island Regional Hospital (Vancouver Island)
  • St. Paul's Hospital redevelopment (Vancouver)


Write your letter here:

Step 1 - Your Message to Premier Gordon Campbell goes here: (feel free to write in your own words)

Dear Premier Gordon Campbell, 

 

 

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Hon. Kevin Falcon, Ministry of Health Services
 Carole James, BC Leader of the Opposition
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