Nurses call on Harper, other party leaders to declare how they would protect medicare from those poised to destroy it
Published by Patrick January 20th, 2006 in Federal Election 2006, House of Labour Tags: bcnu, Healthcare, news, study.Canada’s 130,000 Registered Nurses today challenged Stephen Harper and the other political party leaders to explain clearly how they would protect our public medicare system from the private for-profit medical entrepreneurs who are poised to destroy it.They issued the challenge as a new Ipsos-Reid poll (pdf) showed that Canadians strongly support our not-for-profit medicare system and fear more private health care will draw health care professionals away from our public system and lead to a for-profit American health care system.
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