An ad for a Toronto medical clinic that wants to charge patients more than $450 a year to access key healthcare has residents panicking about privatization of the system.
The post has amassed some 6,000 upvotes and more than 1,400 comments in just two days' time — huge even by the platform's standards., which bills itself as having"accessible, efficient and affordable" care with less wait time than most Ontarians may be used to. That is, those who even have a family doctor (
"Doug Ford driving healthcare and education into the ground so that they can both be increasingly privatized," one person aptly commented. I've gotten a few of these calls even though my medications haven't changed. I didn't know they charge the government for the calls. I thought they were doing it out of concern foe my health. The jokes is on me.One person noted that doctors — who are leaving the profession in droves — are being incentivized to move to private care because they are being paidBilling amounts have not kept pace with inflation, many have argued.