Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
Canadian health care is on the critical list
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
The time has come for a full range of private health care… Private health providers should be welcome to open clinics and hospitals at their own expense… [and] invoice the province at the identical rate per procedure conducted. Efficiencies of operation and patient satisfaction would determine profitability levels for private organizations and public. The money would follow the patient.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
Social media play key role in defending medicare
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Nov 18 2010
Harper has remained disturbingly silent as the proponents of private health care kick up their push to expand two-tier medicine. As well, he has failed to act as provinces delist medical services, allow doctors to extra bill patients and permit queue-jumping… “Defend our health-care system. Stand up for medicare,” says the email that the coalition wants people to send to Harper.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
NAFTA Chapter 11 an increasing threat to the public good
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
November 4, 2010
All levels of government, particularly in Canada, are being targeted by investors for alleged breaches of Chapter 11, NAFTA’s investment chapter, says a new report by CCPA trade analyst Scott Sinclair… Canada has paid out NAFTA damages totaling $CAD157 million, while Mexico has paid damages of $US187 million. The U.S. has yet to lose a NAFTA chapter 11 case… “This situation has become a legal and economic minefield, with governments too often finding that the best interests of their citizens are trumped by the ability of multinationals to make profits,“ the study notes.
Tags: economy, globalization, privatization
Posted in Debates | No Comments »
The Ins and Outs of Foreign Investment
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Nov. 12, 2010
Instead of continuing to wordsmith an Act that has almost always been a rubber stamp, we should undertake a more honest and wide-ranging examination of the pros and cons of foreign investment. And the starting point of that examination should be a review of where we stand right now… If foreign investment enhances the real capacity of our national economy (by adding real capital investment, technology, and export opportunities that we wouldnt have had otherwise), then its a no-brainer: we clearly benefit. But for the most part, thats not the kind of foreign investment weve been getting lately.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
Posted in Policy Context | No Comments »
When will they ever learn? [healthcare costs]
Friday, October 15th, 2010
October 12, 2010
The OECD’s latest report on Canada’s economy emphasizes the challenge of rising healthcare costs… the Report’s solutions match neither its misdiagnosis as to the etiology of the healthcare cost crunch, nor a more accurate diagnosis – foregone tax revenues, the shift to chronic care from acute care, new technologies and failure to attend to the determinants of population health… the Canadian government had “extensive input” into the report. Perhaps we now know its position – make the sick pay.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, privatization, tax
Posted in Health Debates | 1 Comment »
Give family docs more freedom
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Oct. 12, 2010
What causes our shortage of family doctors? …according to a 2005 report from the CFPC, the main reason is money: “[A] lack of remuneration is the leading cause of a decline in medical students choosing to take up family practice. It is also the prevailing reason why family doctors are forced to close their practices.”… Instead of fighting market forces, through a rationed, monopoly-payer system, Canada should allow family doctors to practise both public and private medicine.
Tags: Health, ideology, privatization
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Stephen Harper – the last Straussian?
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Sept. 17, 2010
Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish thinker who escaped Hitler for the U.S. but despaired over the depravity that liberalism might lead to there as it had in Germany, after the liberal 1920s. He felt almost any means were valid to save Western civilization but, due to liberalism’s strength, the strategy had to be cautious, secretive, even duplicitous, with the truth confined to an elite… Secretiveness, an aura of manipulation and a sense of hidden agendas. From a Straussian view, these are good things as means to noble ends… Some sneakiness is routine in politics but here it gets a high-minded intellectual justification. It’s almost romantic.
Tags: ideology, participation, privatization
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
Stephen Harper’s $130 Million Chapter 11 Giveaway
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Aug. 27, 2010
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government reached a $130 million out-of-court settlement with the bankruptcy trustees overseeing the restructuring of AbitibiBowater Inc., a failed forestry and paper giant… The Abitibi settlement ranks as the largest Chapter 11 payout ever made by any North American government. Ottawa’s capitulation will clearly encourage more companies to take aggressive action through the NAFTA kangaroo court, over any government action (nationally prejudicial or otherwise) seen to hurt business profits and the interests of any investors, whatever their nationality.
Tags: globalization, privatization, rights, standard of living
Posted in Debates | 1 Comment »
Measuring the merits of privatization
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Jul 05 2010
For opponents, any outsourcing or privatization of public services is seen as leading to deteriorating service standards and working conditions. The disaster of Walkerton and the rapidly escalating tolls on Highway 407 are often pointed to as illustrations… Conversely, privatization promoters argue that asset sales can raise much needed funds for government, improve the efficiency of public service delivery, and reduce the potential for disruptive labour stoppages… Here is a list of eight criteria that should be used when assessing the merits of privatizing a public asset.
Tags: budget, privatization
Posted in Debates | No Comments »
Let’s give the First Nations homes of their own
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
March 27, 2010
We are proposing that the federal government pass a First Nations Property Ownership Act so that First Nations across Canada can have clear underlying and individual property ownership, should they so choose. The benefits of a First Nations property ownership would be substantial. ..
Tags: Indigenous, privatization
Posted in Equality Debates | 1 Comment »
Recent Comments