[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [bcynd] MSP & Pharmacare

[Paul Browning]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jan Grauman Neander 
To: Jan Grauman 
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: [bcynd] MSP & Pharmacare


  The following information was placed in an ad in Times Colonist (March 6,
2004) by the BCGEU.

  If you feel strongly about this issue, read further and
  then sign the petition.

  "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 August 31.

  The government 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 record.  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.  It should remain in the
care of public employees who are bound by an oath of office to keep it
  confidential.

  To sign the petition, go to:
  http://www.petitiononline.com/publicpc/
  To read more about BCGEU concerns & the court challenge regarding
privatization, then go to: http://www.nupge.ca/news_2004/n25fe04a.htm



  If you feel strongly about this issue, please send this email to your all
  your friends.


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