Sign up for Gordon Campbell's "Conversation on Health"
To help balance the Premier's agenda for user fees and more private, for-profit care, it's important for BCNU members to get involved through the on-line chat rooms and regional forums
As citizens of this province, all BCNU members should sign up and get involved with Premier Gordon Campbell's "Conversation on Health".
The Premier kicked off the $10 million exercise Sept. 28 launching an interactive website at
www.bcconversationonhealth.ca
, an expensive advertising campaign, and announcing a series of 16 regional forums involving 100 citizens each.
To attend the regional forums you have to sign up. If more than 100 people apply, the government will choose the participants at random. To sign up to attend a regional forum go to:
http://www.bcconversationonhealth.ca/402/132/
BCNU is concerned the "Conversation" is designed to convince British Columbians to accept user fees and more for-profit, private businesses delivering health care.
Campbell says it will lead to new legislation adding the principle of "sustainability" to the Canada Health Act. "Sustainability" may be a code word for more government cutbacks, more user fees, private insurance and more people paying directly out of their own pockets.
Several experts and columnists have revealed that government figures used to frighten the public about supposed runaway health expenditures are misleading and phony. Questions used to direct on-line discussion groups are biased toward more private health care and user fees.
To provide balance to the discussion, it's important for BCNU members to get involved in the "Conversation" through the on-line chat rooms and the regional forums.
For more information go to the BCNU website
www.bcnu.org
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