Ever since he first became premier, Ford has made little secret of his fondness for private health-care companies while at the same time insisting with a grin on his face that he’s a champion of publicly funded, not-for-profit health care.
“The status quo isn’t working,” Ford said as he listed a pandemic-fueled backlog of 206,000 surgeries and diagnostic procedures in trying to justify opening the door wide to more two-tier health care in Ontario. Cheered on by insurance companies, conservative doctors, the right-wing Fraser Institute and media outlets, such as the Toronto Sun and National Post, Ford created a task force on health-care reform. It was headed by the late Reuben Devlin, a former Tory party president and hospital executive, who started the ball rolling on increasing privatization.
He gave out new 30-year licences to private operators that will result in 18,000 more beds in long-term care homes. Some of these operators performed so badly during the pandemic that the Canadian military was called in to help out.
This isn’t a warning. It’s an endorsement.
And no tendering process
No one seems to take into account that eye surgeons are all different and some communicate with patients better than others and some have longer wait lists than others - depending on many things - OR availability, personal schedule and health
Along with higher infection rates, and morbidities, lovely
BC desperately need this as well adriandix
ON June’s election turnout was 45% Let’s remember that he only got elected by 40% of the above total 45% …That should be concerning for our democracy.
Funny how it's worked out in Quebec... ...but it'll ruin Healthcare in Ontario you say?
sunlightwarden Where were your reminders during the election when it might have mattered?
As has Trudeau with spending billions of contractors instead of using government employees. Two peas in a pod.
Small 'c' conservative, he like Nero, he'll play the fiddle, while Rome burns, !
Ontario YOU are funding Fords retirement with this. He will become a multi millionaire through under the table payments on this and the Greenbelt healthcare
Maybe the reason Ford is embracing private healthcare is due to the incompetence of our Public Sector Hospital Administrators who are being paid $500k+ a year and couldn’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag Funny we never hear a rational opinion like this from
DougFordMustResign
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