A SUMMER/FALL 2015 • VOLUME 33 NUMBER 2 • THE VOICE OF THE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES’ UNION
HARPER CONSERVATIVES have abandoned our public health care system
$5
BILLION
to be cut from health transfers to the provinces over ten years.
BILLION to be lost in B.C. alone over ten years.
$5
BILLION in cuts to health care in British Columbia over
IS LIKE AGREEMENT NUMBER 40007486
ten
YEARS
LOSING:
8,300 care aide positions per year 2,000 full-time family doctors per year
1,223 hospital beds per year
33,000 joint replacement surgeries per year
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