Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System
By Colleen Fuller.
Description
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 alliances survived the establishment of medicare in Canada in 1968, and have been strengthened by new forces emerging in an era...
ISBN(s)
0921586590, 9780921586593
