A book launch for Morbid Symptoms — Health Under Capitalism (edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys) is taking place Thursday, January 21, 7:30 pm at Annex Live, 296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto.
A fundraising event for the Ontario Health Coalition, the evening will feature a panel discussion by three of the book’s contributors — Colin Leyes, Pat Armstrong and Roddy Loepky. The OHC’s Natalie Mehra and Andy Coates from the US Physicians for a National Health Program, will also speak.
OPSEU Diablogue 
And private, for profit corporations already have a foothold within our public health care system. And guess what, they want a bigger piece of the pie. And they will probably get it. Our language against contracting out will not prevent it, especially in the case of professions with chronic staffing shortages, since contracting out the work of the broader public service to private for profit corporations will not result in layoffs of our members.
Not only is this insidious, but it will erode Medicare from the inside out.