Canada's first 'For-Profit' Hospital/Approved Surgical
Facility (HRG) - Formerly Calgary's Grace Hospital
Canada's first 'For-Profit' Hospital/Approved
Surgical
Facility (HRG) - Formerly Calgary's Grace Hospital
Calgary Chapter
Friends Of Medicare (FOM)
Our Story - Past, Present & Future
1. Welcome to the Calgary Link - Calgary Chapter Introduction and Upcoming Meeting
2. Press
Release - David Himmelstein's lecture
on "Profit
from Pain in U.S. Health Care: A Warning for Canada" on Tuesday,
August 29/00 @ 7:30 pm at the Libin Theatre, Foothills Hospital
-
3330 Hospital Drive, N.W.
Click on Information
Poster for more info.
3. Brief
History of Medicare
from 1867 to 1995.
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Choose a Topic - Write a letter
Choose a Topic below or one of your own:
1. I am a Friend of Medicare - I do not support Bill 11 - you should not support it either
2. A friend of mine has "jumped the queue" for an operation
3. A friend of mine has had to wait so long for an MRI
4. A friend of mine has paid so much for some extras in eye surgery
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Write a letter - Online or Offline:
Influential Governmental Officials/Organizations/Commissions and their e-mail
addresses/phone numbers:
1. To your Member of Parliament (MP) [postage free also] at http://canada.gc.ca
2. To your Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) at 310-0000 [toll free]
3. To the NEW provincial Minister of Health - Gary Mar at [email protected] and at [email protected]
4. To the federal Minister of Health - Allan Rock [postage free also] at [email protected]
5. To your Calgary Chapter Chair - Judy Johnson at [email protected]
6. To the Edmonton Friends of Medicare Chair - Christine Burdett at [email protected]
7. To our Premier - Ralph Klein at [email protected] and at [email protected]
8. To the Prime Minister of Canada, Rt. Honourable, Jean Chretien [postage free also] at [email protected]
9. To the Governor General of Canada, Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson at [email protected]
10. To the federal Minister of Justice Honourable Anne McLellan at [email protected]
11. To the Law Commission of Canada at [email protected]
12. To the College of Physicians and Surgeons: The Registrar, Dr. Ohlhauser at [email protected]
13. To the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, Her Excellency Lois Hole at [email protected]
14. To the Ethics Commissioner, Robert Clark at [email protected]
15. To the Federal Ethics Counselor, Honourable John Manley at www.strategis.ic.gc.ca
16. To our former provincial
Minister of Health at [email protected]
and at
[email protected]
17. To our provincial Acting Leader of the NDP, MLA at [email protected] and at [email protected]
18. To the creator of Bill 11, MLA Ron Stevens at [email protected] and at [email protected]
19. To the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Alberta Legislature, Nancy MacBeth at [email protected] and at [email protected]
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Newspaper Articles
1. City hospitals get $273M shot in arm - Edmonton Journal, Friday June 23, 2000
2. Docs hope new deal will cure medical ills - The Province, Friday June 23, 2000
3. Write Your Leaders... - www.medicare.ca - Friday June 23, 2000
4. Alberta hospitals apply to stop collecting union dues - www.recorder.ca/cp, Wednesday, July 5, 2000
5. Media main source of medical data: poll - The Globe and Mail, Wednesday July 5, 2000
6. Grits get $50G bill for freedom of information request - Edmonton SUN, Wednesday, July 5, 2000
7. Are these 2 private companies running healthcare 'dumps' in Alberta? - www.medicare.ca, Sat. 22 July 2000
8. Bill 11 focus groups asked about 'private hospitals' - CBC online, Saturday 22 July 2000
9. Klein spinning shown to be shamelessly dishonest - Edmonton Journal, Saturday 22 July 2000
10. Klein knew private hospital law would be a 'high risk venture' - Canadian Press, Saturday 22 July 2000
11. Alberta woman demands Klein pay medically necessary MRI bill - Edmonton Journal, Saturday 22 July 2000
12. Draft Speech for Press Releases - Friends of Medicare Press Release, Friday, 26 Jan 2001
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This page was prepared by one of Ralph's "Left
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