Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canadas Health Care System

by Colleen Fuller

Caring For Profit traces how Canada's $77 billion a year health care industry is turning away from its original mandate of providing the best possible medical care to Canadians, and how multinational capital is forcing its way into our non-profit health care system.In Caring For Profit, Colleen Fuller traces alliances that were struck between private insurers and the medical profession during the 1950s and 1960s to defeat socialized medicine. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921586590
• ISBN13: 9780921586593
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The decline of Canada's health system-the full story

Colleen Fuller gives the reader the history of the Canadian medicare system from the Canada Health Act .and even before. She then chronicles how it is now starting to fall apart, and who is responsible. Most Canadians will find this book an eye opener because it will all seem so new to them. They are not used to getting bills for medical services rendered in their lifetime ,and in most provinces the people are walking around half dazed and feel helpless. This book will arm them with some valuable information. It is written by a truly dedicated professional.As a medical/health Journalist I read and write a lot of stuff, but I rarely write reviews. I was moved to do so for this wonderful book.