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Do you care about Public Health Care? If you are like the majority of Canadians, you do. This is a very good article on why I am concerned about the future of public health care in Canada. I have been saying it for some time now and I urge everyone to become aware of the threat of creeping privatization and what the alternatives are. We can save it but it requires everyone to talk about it and to contact their MP's and MPP's or their local papers. Be part of the solution. Willful blindness is not an option. People fought long and hard for public health care in Canada and the majority support it. Please read it and share it. That's something you can do right now. "Proponents of trajectories towards corporate health care insinuate that we can no longer afford universality, that it isn't sustainable, that corporations can deliver better health care, that the "free" market can solve our problems, and that those who oppose corporate health care are, god forbid, "socialists" -- typical FUD fare: manufacture fear, uncertainty and doubt to undemocratically impose an agenda.



Unfortunately for Canadians, each of these accusations is baseless, (except maybe the last one) and the covert agenda is not supported by the will of the people. Eighty-six per cent of Canadians support publicly-funded health care.

The barely hidden agenda is to unravel Canada's signature public health care model in favour of an aggregate of more expensive, more fragmented and less universal corporate models.

Just as the Harper government corrupted the environmental file (in the name of "streamlining"), by drastically removing federal oversight and involvement (vacating jurisdiction), so too is it "vacating jurisdiction" of health care.

The agenda is being achieved by starving the provinces of required funding. Once the 2014 Health Accord is expired, the Harper government will reduce its Canada Health Transfers (CHT's) -- monies transferred from the federal government to the provinces -- by $36 billion, up to the end of 2024.

The void of insufficient funding will be filled by corporate health care."
I urge you to help others become aware of what’s going on and to take action. Call your MP and your MPP to find out what he or she is doing to protect public health care. Make it your business to find out more so you can help protect the future of the public health care system.
Excerpt from How Harper Uses Psychology to Peddle Myths -Mark Taliano
07/30/2013 12:20 pm
Go to this link to read the complete article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/mark-taliano/harper-myths_b_3663204.html

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