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Can Ontario Fix the Shortage of Personal Support Workers?
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
The Ontario government earmarked almost $5 billion in funding over four years to help long-term care homes hire and retain care staff. It’s since added additional millions in incentives to attract thousands to become personal support workers over the next few years… Podcast video Episode: Can New Incentives Help Attract PSWs in Ontario?
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, women
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In health care it is not privatization to fear, it’s profitization
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Despite the evidence, Ford has permitted more for-profits in long-term care, home care, acute care, primary care, and child care. It is not impossible to reverse the corporatization of profits in health care, but trade rules, contracts and other corporate protections can make it difficult and expensive… We don’t need an action plan for corporate profit and control, using public money. We need to improve the public system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Why for-profit homes won’t solve long-termcare issues: Privatizing health services is a bad idea that just won’t go away
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
… for-profit services do nothing to address the major crisis in labour force supply, do nothing about public costs and do too little about public access to care. In fact, they do the reverse; they drain the public system of both people and money. Adding more for-profit services fragments a system already suffering from fragmentation… And the public sector is in a position to quickly offer better work for health-care workers who are at the centre of our health-care system, and more equitable access for all.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Here is a health care to-do list for the federal government
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
The major question in the federal/provincial/territorial debate on health care funding should not be on whether there should be conditions but on what these conditions should be… with funding withheld or returned when these conditions are not met… Addressing health care means… moving on to how can we build a public health-care system that works across the country and for our populations in all their diversity.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Provinces need to have a plan for health-care funding — or they shouldn’t get the money
Monday, August 15th, 2022
Provinces want $28 billion more from the feds for health care… Yes, health care needs more funding. But negotiations need to focus on producing better results. Our premiers need to do more than just acquire more money — they need to govern our public resources, and show us their plans for using an infusion of federal dollars so we can buy change. No plan? No money.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Too many dangers in promised privatization of care economy
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
People with complications are too costly… They’ll end up in an underfunded public not-for-profit system. More access to care through for-profit providers does nothing to address the shortage of health care and eldercare workers and early childhood educators. Cheaper, more equitable, high-quality care that creates good jobs won’t happen by expanding for-profit care. Here are 10 advantages of investing more in public and not-for-profit care.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Canadians need accessible mental-health services, not a fight over who can claim responsibility for those programs
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
For provinces that agree on almost nothing else, this remarkable unity when it comes to avoiding common standards in all future care programs erodes a sense of a nation. A feeling of inclusion comes from knowing that despite political differences among the provinces, people can count on specific standards of care wherever they are in the country.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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The Care Economy Statement
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
This statement… is a call to recognize that good care is crucial to our health and well-being as individuals and as a society; it is the critical social infrastructure that delivers overall economic stability and growth; and it is a shared responsibility, not just a personal one. This requires a shift from thinking of care as an expenditure to understanding it as an economic driver through investment in people and good jobs.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, standard of living
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