MEDIA
RELEASE
ALL MEDIA WELCOME
TO ATTEND
WHEN: Friday
June 9, 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: City Hall
– 400 City Hall Square East.
Windsor,
Ontario
We Can’t “Bear” to
Lose Medicare Tour
The giant teddy bear is 7-feet tall
and 4 1/2 foot-wide: a much-loved and friendly prop to help educate our
communities about the threat of health care privatization. Private for-profit
clinics are trying to take over services from our local public non-profit
hospitals. They charge user fees amounting to hundreds or even thousands of
dollars for diagnostic tests and surgeries, in violation of Canada's medicare
laws. The private clinics have even launched a court challenge to bring down the
laws the protect patients from such user fees. The slogan is We Can't "Bear" to
Lose Medicare - is a warning about the threat posed by privatization. We will be
holding a media conference in each community and we will have information
leaflets available to the public. We will raise funds along the way to cover the
cost of the tour and to help the B.C. Health Coalition intervene in the legal
challenge brought by the private clinics. All are welcome to
join.
