Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli presents the 2019 budget as Premier Doug Ford looks on at the legislature in Toronto on April 11, 2019.
TORONTO — Ontario needs to inject about $7 billion more into health care in the next three years just to maintain the services it currently provides, but the Ford government's budget will leave the system billions of dollars short. The province's financial watchdog projects that the government needs to spend at least $70.3 billion on health care by the 2021/22 fiscal year to keep up with inflation, the growing population and the aging baby boomer generation. But projections in the Progressive Conservatives' first budget,, show that they only intend to raise health-care spending to $65.3 billion in that time, leaving the system $5 billion short.
Health care is the largest expense for Ontario, taking up nearly 40 per cent of its roughly $163-billion budget.by merging Local Health Integration Networks into one centralized agency. That move will save $350 million a year when it's complete, according to the budget document.
300 billion in debt.
Then editors and journalists will be voluntarily donating more of their take home pay to the treasury? Thought not.
What a shock. Make the budhet look all sexy and balanced on paper, leave mess for next liberal primiere, blame liberals for mess you created, rinse repeat.
Apparently everything needs billions more than we are willing to spend, there’s a bit of a problem....we are already 14 billion dollars away from having billions more dollars to spend!onpoli
Other research suggests that doctors over billing placed a burden on the system!
And we can drink at 9AM and we can forget we aren’t getting the treatment we need.
But hey: new license plates! 🤬
It’s not like our population is aging or anything. 🙄🙄🙄
Spending what you don’t have is a major issue. If you want to attack anyone, then choose the LPC that is sending $Bs to other countries when $ needed in Canada.
Natch fordnation
Sucks that Ontario is 15b in the hole then. Maybe someone should’ve thought of this before we got here?
Quel surpris!!!!