Updates
November 29, 2023 11:18 AM
Report back: Sticking Up for Public Health Care Townhall
Our health care system is in crisis. We’re in urgent need of reform, innovation, and brave conversations about what the future must look like for public health care. We can’t...
April 20, 2022 1:27 PM
B.C. spends at least $27M at private clinics to catch up on surgical backlog
April 20, 2022 12:06 PM
Federal budget a miss on pharmacare, long-term care and a health and human resource strategy
March 10, 2022 1:36 PM
Keeping community health in community hands
March 9, 2022 10:07 AM
Provinces using investor-owned for-profit clinics to cut wait times heading towards predictable failure
The symptoms of Canada’s strained health care system are well known by now. We see headlines about the shortages of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. Burnout rates, already a...
March 8, 2022 3:33 PM
Health Coalition seeks progress on Safe Long-Term Care Act in 2022 Budget
Initially posted by the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, posted on February 16, 2022.
The Canadian Health Coalition has delivered the following letter to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, calling for...
February 1, 2022 4:14 PM
One step closer to a "Safe Long-Term Care Act"
It has been well over a year since Prime Minister Trudeau first committed to set national long-term care standards. With the recent release of a new draft national standard...
January 31, 2022 4:11 PM
How did "Big Pharma" delay cheaper drug prices, again?
Reposted with permission from the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, initially posted on January 24, 2022.
It was the day before Christmas Eve when the government issued Continue reading
January 31, 2022 3:59 PM
Global solidarity for universal public health care
BC Health Coalition participates in international panel on universal health care
The NC Medicare for All Coalition and the...
January 11, 2022 11:28 AM
BC's Crisis Lines will stay in not-for-profit hands!
BC Health Coalition members know too well that Request For Proposal (RFP) processes run a high risk of contracting out public and non-profit services to private, for-profit, companies. So in...
December 9, 2021 4:06 PM
Health Coalition members demand progress on pharmacare in Fiscal Update and Budget 2022
Canadian Health Coalition members, along twenty allied organizations and public health care experts, have written to Prime Minister Trudeau and his key ministers, including Health Minister Jean-Yves...