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More than 24,000 people have signed an online petition in support of the Romanow commission report. You can be next.
The petition calls for:
- Increasing federal funding for targeted expansion of Medicare.
- Establishing accountability for health expenditures.
- Stopping the spread of privatization.
- Protecting our health-care from trade agreements.
- Pursuing all Romanow recommendations, including those on primary health-care, home care, pharmacare, funding remote and rural communities, reducing wait times for diagnostic services, and resolving health human resources shortages.
The Canadian Health Coalition, of which CUPE is a member, has organized the petition in support of the report.
CUPE has produced an analysis piece on the Romanow report. While the report is a breath of fresh air in our toxic climate of privatization, it’s not without its weaknesses, namely its assertion that so-called “ancillary services” like food preparation and cleaning aren’t important to quality of care and therefore can be contracted-out or privatized.