Undoing the Canadian Health Care System: The Privatization of Medical Laboratories in Ontario
Abstract
This paper focuses on one company, MDS, the largest provider of medical laboratory services in Canada. It has also been a leader in the move to privatize laboratory services in Ontario. In a free trade environment, with the weakening of the Canada Health Act ensuring universality in services, these efforts promise to succeed. We will see how privatization in this area comes together with "new" management techniques, described in a discourse of empowerment and democracy although it leads to quite the opposite.Metrics
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