Waiting For Romanow: Canada's Health Care Values Under Fire


Arthur Schafer
Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics
University of Manitoba, Canada
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
September 2002 / ISBN 0-88627-318-8 /

Available online PDF file [15p.] at:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/waiting-for-romanow.pdf
<http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/waiting-for-romanow.pdf>


".......Attacks on Medicare are also attacks on the underlying core values
of Canadians--values such as fairness, compassion, equality of opportunity,
and social solidarity--and so a defence of Medicare is essential to protect
the values that we Canadians see as defining who we are. Our support for an
accessible public health care system is the one bond we have that transcends
geography, ethnicity, language, gender, race and class.


This report analyzes and refutes all the arguments for underfunding and
privatizing our health care system, but also exposes them as attempts to
undermine Canadians' commitment to a caring community.


This paper on the values embodied in Medicare is the first of several on
health care issues that will be released this fall by the  CCPA. They will
include the CCPA's Report to the Romanow Commission on "Globalization and
Health," one of three major research projects commissioned by Romanow, and,
as well, a major study on the federal government's role in financing health
care. ......"


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