[CUPE healthcare list] BC health coalition lobbying municipal councils on pro-public healthcare resolution

[Irene Jansen <ijansen@cupe.ca>]

See the resolution here:
http://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/images/PDF/ubcm_pc_resolution_b147_2009.pdf

See the petition here:
http://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/content/view/243/49/
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From: BC Health Coalition [info@bchealthcoalition.ca]
Sent: June 24, 2010 12:31 PM
To: Irene Jansen
Subject: BCHC Friends of Medicare E-newsletter | June 2010

Action alert! Tell your Municipal Councillors to support the public health care resolution at this year's Union of BC Municipalities meeting!

Municipal governments from around the province will gather from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 at the UBCM Annual General Meeting in order to address common issues and share concerns with the provincial government.

Last year the cities of Victoria and New Westminster brought forward a resolution calling on the province to stop the expansion of for-profit surgical and MRI/CT clinics. The resolution is on the agenda again this year.

Municipal governments can play an important role in protecting public health services in their communities. Support for this resolution is just one of the ways that municipal officials can take a stand to protect and improve our public health care system and promote the development of public, not-for-profit health care facilities.

Take Action! Click here<http://bchealthcoalition.ca/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=368&e=MTQ2NQ==&l=-http--www.bchealthcoalition.ca/content/view/243/49/> to e-mail your Municipal Council and ask that it support the pro-public healthcare resolution. If this resolution passes, it will send an important signal to the provincial government and the private, for-profit clinic owners who are setting up shop in B.C.

BC Health Coalition • 411 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1X4
P: 604-681-7945 • F: 604-681-7947 • Email: info@bchealthcoalition.ca<mailto:info@bchealthcoalition.ca>

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