----- Original Message -----
From: Adeline Rafael
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:12 AM
Subject: Fw: Health Care Statement
As Canadians, we await in this next week one of the most important documents
to be released for some time. A report on the future of the Canadian Health
Care system will be released on Nov 28th and many are optimistic from
Commissioner Romanow's recent speeches that it will re-affirm the values on
which our health care was built to begin with, values based on social
justice, community, and the responsibility of citizens to care for those
less fortunate. Those values are well represented in the statement of the
Canadian Health Care Coalition, http://www.healthcoalition.ca/oct12.html of
which the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario is proud to be part.
We are hopeful that the report will recommend changes to the health care
system that will uphold those values, yet recommend changes so that our
system can evolve from one that considered only essential medical and
hospital services as needing protection with the Canada Health Act's
principles of comprehensiveness, universality, accessibility, portability,
and public administration. In fact, RNAO has recommended in its report to
the Romanow Commission, a parallel act that would protect services across
sectors in the same way, e.g., home care, public health, rehab services,
pharmaceuticals. (More details are at
http://www.rnao.org/html/PDF/RNAO_MoreOfAGoodThing.pdf ).
Recently, at a rally to protest the creeping expansion of for-profit heath
care in Ontario, Shirley Douglas remarked that the future of health care in
Canada was in the public's hands. I would urge you to make your thoughts
known through letters to the editors of our daily newspapers. The addresses
are below. Letters from those of you outside of Canada will also be
important.
National Post
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
www.nationalpost.com <http://www.nationalpost.com/>
The National Post
300 - 1450 Don Mills Road,
Don Mills, Ontario
Canada
M3B 3R5
Phone: (416) 383-2300
Fax: (416) 442-2209
Globe and Mail
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
www.theglobeandmail.com <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/>
The Globe and Mail
444 Front Street West,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
M5V 2S9
Phone: 416-585-5000
Fax: 416 585-5085
Toronto Star
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
www.thestar.com <http://www.thestar.com/>
The Toronto Star
One Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
M5E 1E6
Phone: 416 367-2000
Fax: 416 869-4322
Send one line: unsubscribe click4hp to: [log in to unmask] to unsubscribe
See: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html to alter your subscription
|
