Members of the BC Legislative Assembly debate with Health Care Minister Dr. Terry Lake about the lack of nurses, doctors, and the waiting lists for services.
59 minute video.
Archive for Health
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Dr. Margaret McGregor spoke at the Vancouver Public Library in favour of non-profit health services. This conversation was relevant in 2006 and continues to be relevant in 2014
17 minute video
Advanced Practice Nurse Othmar Arnold explains the difference between medical treatment service and preventive medicine. He reminds us that economic inequality is one of the determinants of health.
Part 1 of 4 – 15 minute videos.
Determinants of Health – video part 2
Determinants of Health – video part 3
Determinants of Health – video part 4
Health care services in BC are a for-profit commodity or a not-for-profit human right?
David Schreck a former member of the legislative assembly in BC answers that it is both because we have adopted a mixed economy.
A two part video about health care in BC
29:30 each
Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria and author of Selling Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease. He was the keynote speaker at the Victoria Seniors Meeting in February 2012.
Economist Marc Lee, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, explains economics of public health care.
15-minute Quick Time movie
Murry Dobbin and Coleen Fuller explain the possibilities and impediments of public health care services.
15 minute Quick Time movie
Murry Dobbin and Coleen Fuller explain the possibilities and impediments of public health care services.
15 minute Quick Time movie
Dr. Thomas Kerr, of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Retired BC Judge Jerry Paradis, with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Retired BC Judge Jerry Paradis, with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
Former Mayor of Vancouver, Philip Owen, advocates for improving and maintaining Harm Reduction as one of the four pillars to manage drug addictions.
Former Mayor of Vancouver, Philip Owen, advocates for improving and maintaining Harm Reduction as one of the four pillars to manage drug addictions.
Cheryl Hewitt, a community health care advocate
18 minute conversation
The last conversation, in the series of sixteen, with Health Minister Geroge Abbot.
The participant’s reports clearly reject the “For-profit” Health Care.