ARE CANADIAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS
HANDING OVER YOUR PERSONAL/MEDICAL
INFORMATION
TO CORPORATIONS?
Beginning at the B.C. Medical Plan Services web site: http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/msp/ which states:
"The Province is moving to modernize and improve the administration of MSP and PharmaCare, and to enhance the timeliness and quality of service to the public and health professionals. After a year-long procurement process, MAXIMUS BC has been selected to provide program management and information technology services to government. This will help to improve B.C.'s health benefits operations services, which include responding to public inquiries, registering clients, and processing medical and pharmaceutical claims from health professionals. Direct health care services to patients are not involved. Under the 10-year, $324 million contract, the operations will remain in Victoria. The valuable knowledge and experience of MSP and PharmaCare staff will now be combined through this arrangement with the best available technology and business processes. Privacy and security have been top priorities of this initiative."
(Editor's note: From the first pdf doc you'll assume that Maximus BC is a Canadian company. Sounds cute doesn't it, Maximus BC however is a subsidiary of an American Company out of Reston, Virginia - more on Maximus Inc. later).
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/editorial/jan2005/01-14-05.html
HANDING OVER YOUR PERSONAL/MEDICAL
INFORMATION
TO CORPORATIONS?
Beginning at the B.C. Medical Plan Services web site: http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/msp/ which states:
"The Province is moving to modernize and improve the administration of MSP and PharmaCare, and to enhance the timeliness and quality of service to the public and health professionals. After a year-long procurement process, MAXIMUS BC has been selected to provide program management and information technology services to government. This will help to improve B.C.'s health benefits operations services, which include responding to public inquiries, registering clients, and processing medical and pharmaceutical claims from health professionals. Direct health care services to patients are not involved. Under the 10-year, $324 million contract, the operations will remain in Victoria. The valuable knowledge and experience of MSP and PharmaCare staff will now be combined through this arrangement with the best available technology and business processes. Privacy and security have been top priorities of this initiative."
(Editor's note: From the first pdf doc you'll assume that Maximus BC is a Canadian company. Sounds cute doesn't it, Maximus BC however is a subsidiary of an American Company out of Reston, Virginia - more on Maximus Inc. later).
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/editorial/jan2005/01-14-05.html
