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Privatizing Medicare in BC
Submitted by Atratus on
From a message forwarded to me:
The Gordon Campbell Liberals plan to sell off the administration of 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