Media Advisory: Giant 7'' Tall Teddy Bear Touring Ontario Warning of Health Care Privatization Threat: We Can''t "Bear" to Lose Medicare
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 06/05/17 -- Attn: Assignment Editor
What: The Ontario Health Coalition is taking a giant7-foot tall teddy bear with the slogan "We Can''t Bear to Lose Medicare" to 20 towns from late May to mid -June to raise awareness about the threat of health care privatization. In each town there will be a media event with leafletting and public discussion.
The Issue: Health Coalitions are issuing a friendly but serious warning: We Can''t "Bear" to Lose Medicare, to raise awareness of the threat of health care privatization. Private for-profit clinics are pushing to privatize services from our local public hospitals. Patients, often elderly, are shocked to find out that private clinics are charging user fees amounting to hundreds or even thousands of dollars for medically-needed care such as cataract surgeries. In provinces such as B.C. and Quebec, private clinics and extra user fees for patients have become a major problem. In B.C. private clinics have even launched a court challenge to bring down the laws that protect patients from user fees. The Ontario Health Coalition will raise funds along the way to help the B.C. Health Coalition intervene in the legal challenge brought by the private for-profit clinics, which threatens public health care all across Canada.
"Canada''s public health care system is under threat by private profits-seeking clinics that want to be able to bill OHIP for tests and surgeries and bill patients hundreds or even thousands of dollars as well" said Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition. "User fees for medically-needed hospital and physician care are unlawful under the Canada Health Act. We are drawing attention to this, explaining to patients their rights, and pushing back against the takeover of non-profit and public hospitals by private for-profit corporations."
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Peter Boyle
Tour Spokesperson
(613) 539-3622
Edgar Godoy
(416) 441-2502
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Datum: 05.06.2017 - 05:30 Uhr
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