The Alberta government has been looking to the private sector—and in particular to private health insurance—to solve health care problems. In this highly readable and well-researched book, Diana Gibson and Colleen Fuller get to the real story behind private health insurance and offer viable solutions for strengthening Canada’s public health care system from within.

Diana Gibson has engaged in policy research and education nationally and internationally on issues ranging from health care, inequality and labour rights to energy and trade policy. She is a founding director of The Firelight Group research cooperative and the Canadians for Tax Fairness, a director of PolicyLink Research and Consulting and a research advisor with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute. She authored the book, The Bottom Line: The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada.

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An independent health researcher for the Parkland Institute, Colleen Fuller is also the President and co-founder of PHARMAWATCH, North America's first and only direct-from-consumer adverse drug reaction reporting program. The author of Caring for Profit, How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System (New Star Books), she has spoken extensively on federal regulation of both health services and prescription medicines. Fuller is also on the Board of Vancouver's Reach Community Health and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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