Health Care for All: A Public Good, Not a Private Benefit
“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.” 1 Corinthians 12: 12-26 Ecumenical Health Care Network The Ecumenical Health Care Network (EHCN) is a coalition that reflects the perspective of many Churches in Canada in relation to health care. We are part of the […]
A Health Covenant: Fact Sheets on Key Health Care Issues
The “Moral Enterprise” of Health Care Demands a Covenant The first of 47 recommendations made in the final report of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (released on November 28, 2002) urged the federal government to “…establish a new Canadian Health Covenant as a tangible statement of Canadians’ values and a […]
The Health Council of Canada: Fact Sheets on Key Health Care Issues
The need for accountability and transparency The creation of an independent council to inform Canadians on health care matters while promoting accountability and transparency was among the central recommendations of the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (November 2002). In September of 2003 the Health Council of Canada was established by […]
Home Care: Fact Sheets on Key Health Care Issues
In its submission to the Romanow Commission, the Ecumenical Health Care Network noted that an increasing number of Canadians are now receiving care at home, and called for the creation of a national home care program. In his final report, Mr. Romanow recommended that the needs of people receiving care in the home be recognized […]
Health Care Funding: Fact Sheets on Key Health Care Issues
A need for long term stability and predictability Funding issues have dominated discussions of health care for some time. Leading up to the publishing of the Romanow report, there were loud and persistent claims about the doubtful sustainability of medicare, about more private funding being desirable, and about the need for more money to the […]
For-Profit Health Care: Fact Sheets on Key Health Care Issues
For-profit health care delivery threatens to undermine Medicare In his final report, Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada, delivered to Parliament in November 2002, Commissioner Roy Romanow was very clear in rejecting for-profit delivery of health care. The Commission states that “direct health care services should be delivered in public and […]
Les soins de santé à but lucratif : Feuilles d’information sur les grandes questions de soins de santé
La prestation de soins de santé à but lucratif menace de saper l’assurance-maladie Dans son rapport final, Guidé par nos valeurs : Les soins de santé au Canada, présenté au Parlement le 28 novembre 2002, le commissaire Roy Romanow rejette très nettement la prestation de soins de santé à but lucratif. La Commission déclare que […]
Un pacte sur les soins de santé : Feuilles d’information sur les grandes questions de soins de santé
« L’ entreprise morale » des soins de santé exige une alliance :es 47 premières recommandations du rapport de la Commission sur l’avenir des soins de santé au Canada (publié le 28 novembre 2002) pressaient le gouvernement fédéral « d’établir un nouveau Pacte canadien sur la santé qui serait l’énoncé concret des valeurs des Canadiens […]
Soins à domicile: Feuilles d’information sur les grandes questions de soins de santé
Dans son mémoire à la Commission Romanow, le Réseau œcuménique sur les soins de santé, faisant observer que de plus en plus de Canadiens et Canadiennes reçoivent des services à domicile, réclamait la création d’un programme national de soins à domicile qui commenceraient par : l’aide aux services de gestion et d’intervention à domicile; les […]
Médicaments d’ordonnance : Feuilles d’information sur les grandes questions de soins de santé
Intégration des médica- ments d’ordonnance dans le système de soins de santé du Canada Dans son mémoire à la Commission Romanow, De Réseau œcuménique sur les soins de santé recommandait que les médicaments d’ordonnance soient reconnus comme une composante entièrement financée de l’assurance- maladie. La Commission relève les disparités considérables, au Canada, dans le remboursement […]
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