[mobglob-discuss] Fw: Petition to Keep BC Medicare in BC

[Paul Browning]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lee" <steveleenow at yahoo.com>
To: "Paul Browning" <paulnbrowning at hotmail.com>
Cc: <steveleenow at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Petition to Keep BC Medicare in BC


> The following is quoted from the main text of a media
> release from the College Institute educators Assoc. of
> BC in response to recent disclosures from our Prov.
> Gov. regarding BCMSP:
> 
> "The Gordon Campbell Liberals plan to sell off the
> Medical Services Plan and PharmaCare to either IBM or
> Maximus - both American multi-national corporations -
> by Aug. 31. 2004.
> 
> This will give an American-owned corporation access to
> private records on every British Columbian. This
> includes health treatment, pharmacy, income tax,
> mental health and criminal records, as well as records
> from the Ministries of Children and Family Development
> and Human Resources.
> 
> A New York expert on the new USA Patriot Act says this
> could even give the FBI access to our private medical
> records. The Patriot Act allows the FBI to demand
> corporations secretly hand over medical records and
> other personal information of innocent people. And
> legal precedents suggest even if the information is
> held by a Canadian subsidiary, the American parent
> company could be required to hand it over.
> 
> Our personal medical information should not be made
> available to private corporations that don't answer to
> our privacy laws."
> 
> If you wish to sign the petition to the BC Government,
> to keep our MSP and PharmaCare programs under the
> public control, please go to: 
> 
> http://www.petitiononline.com/publicpc/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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