1. BC Nurses' Union
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
2. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
   
3. Life Before Medicare
   Canadian Experiences
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   
4. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
   Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
   
5. Ontario Nurses' Association
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. Privatization and Health Care
   The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
   
7. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
   Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1985
   
8. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
9. Take Care
   Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
   
10. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
11. Unsafe Practices
    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
12. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.

Experts on Health Care Privatization in the Sources Directory

1. BC Nurses' Union
2. Ontario Nurses' Association