Is PROFIT® the cure?

No, profit is definitely not the cure to Canada’s health care ills.

We’ve learned the harsh lessons of privatization from our neighbours. The U.S. spends nearly twice as much per person on health care as we do and has over 40 million people who have no health care whatsoever. For-profit health care provides less coverage to fewer people. It costs more, and it means lower life expectancies and higher infant mortality rates. It removes money from the system and gives it to corporate shareholders. And despite the loud claims of politicians and health care lobbyists, for-profit health care will do nothing to shorten wait times.

• Profit is Not the Cure: A Call to Citizen's Action to Save Medicare - Report by Maude Barlow
• A comparison of death rates in public vs. for-profit hospitals (PowerPoint presentation)
• Five things you should know about wait times
• Wait time success stories in the public system
• The myths of for-profit health care
• *NEW* The myth of the 'European solution': A closer look at the U.K., France and Sweden shows the advantages of public health care - Canadian Perspectives, Summer 06
• Europe's Health Reforms: Hard Lessons
  An investigation into health care reform issues in European countries Premier Campbell visited in 2006.
  Series on thetyee.ca.
• Romanow Report
  Roy Romanow, Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, recommended changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of Canada's health care system.