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Published in The Chronicle Herald April 21, 2013 Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to cut the Health Council of Canada should clear any lingering doubts: the federal government has abandoned all responsibility for health care and is turning its back on the provinces as they struggle to pick up the pieces. The [...] Continue reading Letter to the Editor: Health Council demise a sign Published in The Chronicle Herald March 6th, 2013 By John Hutton and Adrienne Silnicki It is disappointing that NDP Health Minister Dave Wilson has chosen to renew a government contract with Scotia Surgery. The contract, worth $1 million to the for-profit clinic to perform 500 surgeries per year, raises a lot of unanswered questions. Beyond [...] Continue reading March 6/12 Op-Ed- Pay More, Get Less: Private health care wrong way to go Published in the Chronicle Herald, October 31st, 2012 By Bill Swan, Board Member of the NS Citizen’s Health Care Network
“If we can’t afford public care, we sure as hell can’t afford private care,” Canadian health policy expert Raisa Deber quipped during a meeting some years ago in Toronto. It is one of the [...] Continue reading Oct. 31/12 – Op-ed: Stop the drift to private care by protecting public system Published in The Chronicle Herald on Sunday, September 30th, 2012
Strengthening public care I think the Sept. 25 editorial “Health-care delivery: Flex credits” missed the point about how the government’s “Better Care Sooner” has helped to improve emergency health care. The real value of the Better Care Sooner initiative is that its five major [...] Continue reading September 30/12 – Letter to the Editor: Strengthening public care Letter to the Editor By John Hutton, Nova Scotia Citizen’s Health Care Network Think about the problems we face with health care as it is. Now, imagine that over one thousand nurses were removed. Think about how long it takes to get a bed in a hospital here in Nova Scotia. Now, imagine that several [...] Continue reading September 13th/12 – Letter to the Editor: Premiers Must Demand Accord Mean-spirited cut *Printed in the Chronicle Herald on June 17, 2012* In December 2011, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced it would cut funding for public health care by $21 billion to $31 billion, from 2017 to 2024. There was no consultation. And recently, again with no consultation, it announced another drastic and extremely [...] Continue reading Mean-spirited cut |
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