Beyond Acute Care - Conference

Beyond Acute Care: Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella

Featuring:

• Ralph Nader, renowned consumer advocate and former U.S. presidential candidate
• Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians
• And many other Canadian, American and European experts on the politics and policy of health care for seniors, the disabled and other vulnerable citizens

Hear them all – and participate in building a better future for all Albertans – by taking part in the Beyond Acute Care Conference. Visit BeyondAcuteCare.ca for details.

Watch the conference video here:

There is a modest $75 fee for the conference, with a lunch included on Saturday. The fee is $50 for seniors and low-income participants.

Albertans who wish to hear Ralph Nader, who has devoted his living to giving ordinary people the tools they need to defend themselves against corporate negligence and government indifference, but cannot attend the full conference, can hear his keynote speech on Friday night for $25.

Beyond Acute Care: Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella, is sponsored by several organizations determined to protect, enhance and extend Canada’s and Alberta’s fair and efficient system of public administered, publicly funded and publicly operated system of Medicare.

Among the conference sponsors are the United Nurses of Alberta, Public Interest Alberta, the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Health Sciences Association of Alberta and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

One of the key goals of this conference is to ensure that the need for a continuum of public health care, including care of the seniors who built our province, as well as the existing deficits in the system are acknowledged and acted on by the Alberta government.

Conference organizers have invited participants from the United States and Europe because the problems and innovations alike of health care in those places provide a useful roadmap for Canadians as they struggle to improve our national health care system, and to resist the advocates of privatization who would take the worst and ignore the best ideas from abroad.

Click here for a registration form. For registration information, contact the Alberta Federation of Labour, 780-483-3021 (Edmonton); 1-800-661-3995 (toll-free, province-wide); 780-484-5928 (fax).

Visit the conference website - BeyondAcuteCare.ca