Day of Action for Public Health Care

From the Manitoba Health Coalition:

Alberta’s Danielle Smith government has launched an unprecedented frontal assault on the Canada Health Act to end single-tier public Medicare & bring in U.S. private health care. The law brings in private for-profit health insurance, direct billing of patients, queue jumping for those who can afford it, pushing everyone else back in line, workplace private health insurance plans, and more. It is not “like” U.S. style health care. It is U.S. private health care, and for-profit health care interests are lined up to cash in.

All across the country, public health care advocates are fighting back. The Canadian Health Coalition is holding a national Day of Action on March 16th with rallies and other mobilizations taking place from coast to coast, calling on the federal government to break its silence on Alberta’s privatization of health care and to enforce the Canadian Health Act.

Here in Manitoba, the Manitoba Health Coalition is rallying for public health care at the Union Centre (275 Broadway) on March 16th from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.

For more details, email the Manitoba Health Coalition.