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PROTECT: because Federal financial support was intended to be 50% of Provincial Health Budgets and it is falling below 20%

The Federal Government needs to recommit to funding healthcare
STRENGTHEN: because privatization is bleeding money out of the system, producing profits at the expense of services
Stop privatization and 3P's, put all our healthcare money into services
EXTEND: because health costs are out of control with drug, dental and homecare costs impoverishing families across Canada
Cover medications, home and dental care to save money for families and Canada
MEDICARE: our system ensuring the right to health is also the most cost effective way of paying for a healthy population
Healthcare in Canada needs to be protected, strengthened and extended
ORGANIZE: we achieved what universal healthcare we have ~ because we organized in our communities to demand it

Universal HealthCare is the result of our combined efforts and we need your help

Letter to the Editor: Health Council demise a sign

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.

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4/5 Media Release: Health Network Welcomes New Budget: Still Much More to Be Done for Public Health Care

Halifax, NS – The Nova Scotia Citizen’s Health Care Network is pleased with the provincial budget tabled yesterday in the legislature. The government has provided funding for key initiatives to give Nova Scotians better public health care. Universal dental care was extended for children from age 10 to 13, insulin pumps will be funded for [...]

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3/21 Media Release: Federal Budget Lacks Leadership on Public Health Care

The federal budget tabled today in the House of Commons missed many opportunities to improve public health care and will leave thousands of Canadians waiting for care, says the Nova Scotia Citizen’s Health Care Network.

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Get Involved! – National Health Care Lobby Week April 8th

The Nova Scotia Citizen’s Health Care Network is joining with medicare allies across the country to organize a national lobby during the week of April 8th to ask Members of Parliament to support the 2014 Health Accord.

So far the Harper government has ignored the call of premiers to talk about the state of [...]

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March 6/12 Op-Ed- Pay More, Get Less: Private health care wrong way to go

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 [...]

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