The Parkland Institute

Parkland research: healthcare

Reports and Books

• Delivery Matters:
  The high costs of for-profit health services in Alberta (Apr 2012)
  tagged with: health care, health resources centre, healthcare, HRC, privatization
• Access, Quality and Affordability:
  Real health care change for Albertans (Sep 2010)
  tagged with: Alberta health act, Fred Horne, health legislation, healthcare, members' advisory committee on health
• Rewriting Alberta’s Health Laws:
  A Trojan Horse for Expanding For-Profit Health Care (Jun 2010)
  tagged with: health act, healthcare
• The New Alberta Health Act: Risks and Opportunities:
  Report 1, Risks of the Alberta Health Act (Jun 2010)
  tagged with: health act, healthcare
• The need to redevelop Alberta Hospital:
  Psychiatric beds are at the centre of psychiatric care (Apr 2010)
  tagged with: Alberta Hospital Edmonton, bed closures, deinstitutionalization, healthcare, mental health
• Living in hope:
  About the 2009-2010 bed closures at Alberta Hospital Edmonton (Apr 2010)
  tagged with: Alberta Hospital Edmonton, Alberta Writers Series, bed closures, Curtis Gillespie, deinstitutionalization, healthcare, mental health, Stephen Duckett
• Crisis? What Crisis?:
  Public health care and affordability in Alberta (Jun 2009)
  tagged with: economics, healthcare, public spending, sustainability
• Sustainable Healthcare for Seniors:
  Keeping it Public (Sep 2008)
  tagged with: healthcare, public services, seniors
• The Bottom Line:
  The Truth Behind Private Health Care Insurance in Canada (Mar 2006)
  tagged with: healthcare, privatization
• Public Remedies, Not Private Payments:
  Quality Health Care in Alberta (Nov 2004)
  tagged with: healthcare, political myths, service cuts, sustainability, tax cuts
• Reclaiming Medicare:
  A Response to the Mazankowski Misdiagnosis (May 2002)
  tagged with: Canada, healthcare, political myths, spending, sustainability

Media items

• For-profit health options fraught with peril
  Op-eds | April 19, 2012
• New report highlights dangers of private health care
  For Immediate Release | April 10, 2012
• In Residential Long-term Care, Delivery Matters
  For Immediate Release | February 23, 2012
• Billing Doctors
  Mentions | June 21, 2011
• Wildrose leader’s private model a flawed remedy for health care
  Op-eds | February 07, 2011
• We need extra capacity, not vague Health Act
  Op-eds | November 02, 2010
• Health Care System Needs Action, Not a New Health Act
  For Immediate Release | September 21, 2010
• Proposed changes to Alberta Health Act require reassessment
  Op-eds | June 07, 2010
• Nothing to gain and everything to lose
  For Immediate Release | June 02, 2010
• Alberta families pay most in Canada for health, education, and utilities
  Op-eds | February 06, 2010
• Alberta has a duty to resist health care cuts
  Op-eds | November 21, 2009
• Health care budget cuts are unnecessary
  For Immediate Release | June 25, 2009
• Instead of cuts, Liepert should increase health spending
  For Immediate Release | April 19, 2009
• Aging Boomers Will Not Cause Crisis in Health Care Affordability
  For Immediate Release | September 18, 2008

Parkland Post stories

• Profit before people:
  Manufactured health-care "crisis" designed to justify privatization
  Spring/Summer 2009 | tagged with: healthcare, privatization
• User fees contradict purpose of Medicare:
  In Alberta and BC, monthly health-care fees create barriers for low-income people
  Winter 2008 | tagged with: British Columbia, equality, healthcare, income, user fees

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