Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost
Private nursing agencies are but a band-aid solution to health care staffing shortages, while costs balloon for our public health care systems.
Private nursing agencies are but a band-aid solution to health care staffing shortages, while costs balloon for our public health care systems.
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corporate practice of medicine.
Wellness Spending Accounts (WSAs) first-and-foremost enhance the “bottom line” at the expense of the working-class.
While there remains room to increase efficiencies and gain greater value for money, bending the cost curve requires fundamental reforms to the way we manage and deliver health services in Canada.
What we need are strategies to improve access to diagnostic technologies that strengthen medicare rather than undermining it.