The Avro Arrow Manipulation: Murdering Medicare - Softcover

Will-cupchik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896342191 ISBN 13: 9781896342191

Publisher: Tagami Communications, 2005

Synopsis

Synopsis: This historical and political fiction deals with two of Canada’s cultural icons, the Avro Arrow and the country’s government-run Medicare system. The former was killed long ago while the latter is chronically in intensive care. Set in the year 2009, the reader finds Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system threatened from within and without by political/business/media interests heavily influenced by clandestine lobbying that is being carried out on behalf of certain American healthcare and pharmaceutical interests, with the specific aim of crippling the Canadian system and replacing it with an American-style, for-profit structure. Many of the same coercive techniques that were previously employed to help shut down the Avro Arrow fighter-interceptor program are being employed again, and are even being directed by some of the very same shadowy characters. However, from the startling contents of a mysterious package delivered to his place of work, Ken ! Simpson, a prize-winning senior investigative reporter for America’s most respected newspaper, learns that he has deeply personal -as well as professional- reasons to delve into the true goings-on that brought down the Avro Arrow program a half-century earlier and are now being used to usurp both the American and Canadian healthcare systems.

About this title

About the Author

Will Cupchik (Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto) is the author of The Avro Arrow Manipulation (Tagami, September 2004, $22.95US). Will’s first degree was in electrical engineering (from McGill University) and he was employed as a Navigational Systems Design engineer in what remained of Canada’s aviation industry shortly after the Avro Arrow program was shut down. For the past forty years Will has worked in the healthcare field in Canada: he formerly held the position of Psychologist-in-Charge, Forensic Outpatient Psychological Services at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, in Toronto. He has been in full-time private practise as a Registered Psychologist since 1986 and works with both American and Canadian clients. He is also the author of the best-selling non-fiction book in his specialized area of psychological expertise - Why Honest People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft.

Review

" A truly riveting novel providing a compelling overview of the political dynamics of the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems." -- Bob Couchman, Member, Federal Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Rural Health

"Fascinating and compelling. (Its) premise is wildly imaginative but disturbingly plausible. Will Cupchik is a good story-teller. -- – June Callwood, journalist and author

Edition details

• Publisher: Tagami Communications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1896342191
• ISBN 13: 9781896342191
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 564