Posts Tagged ‘budget’
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Why is Ontario embracing private health care? The Scandinavian experience shows it hurts both the quality and choice of care
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
A new report examines trends in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France and Great Britain, where the pursuit of profit by financial capital is systematically devouring public funding, eroding quality of care and degrading working conditions. Sound familiar? It should: The tapeworm economy has arrived in Ontario, and we need to control it… The escalating profitization of care gobbles up funds that could improve care.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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How shamelessly has Doug Ford ground down Ontario’s colleges and universities? Let me count the ways
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
The Tories set up a fancy-sounding Blue Ribbon Panel on Post-secondary Education that quickly focused on fixing the distorted bottom line with straightforward advice: Stop cutting tuition and stop freezing funding… Let’s not confuse efficiencies with distortions. By profiting from the penury of post-secondary institutions — boosting his own bottom line while starving universities and contorting colleges — Ford is giving the province a costly lesson about false economies.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology
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Ontario professors offer a blueprint for revitalizing public universities
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Ontario has the lowest per-domestic student funding level for universities in Canada… The government of Ontario’s disinvestment has led universities to look elsewhere for revenue, including sky-high international student tuition fees… said Jenny Ahn, OCUFA Executive Director. “The current state of affairs for Ontario universities is unsustainable. Our recommendations for the provincial budget provide a path forward for investing in public education.”
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, participation
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How better and cheaper software could save millions of dollars while improving Canada’s health-care system
Monday, February 5th, 2024
Although the Canadian federal government has invested over $2.1 billion developing health information technology (HIT), all 10 provinces still have their own separate HIT systems. Besides being an obvious source of redundancy and waste, these systems: do not work together, are expensive and are inconsistent… we analyzed the economic costs and savings of integrating some of the functions of the software…
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, privatization
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Cure for the Public Debt Pandemic: An Economic-Principles-Based Fiscal Anchor
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
… we don’t have a textbook fiscal policy but rather a counter-recession and pro-expansion debt policy… over a business cycle, the net accumulation of public debt should be equal to the value of income-generating investments. This anchor would fluctuate with changes in business conditions but would guide policymakers to maintain the tight relationship of its two parts over time… We can call this anchor “net economic public debt.”
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology
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Missing teeth: Who’s left out of Canada’s dental care plan
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
The choice is twofold: (1) Continue to create new medical care programs with a fill-in-the-gaps model and an income cap, like Canada is currently doing on dental care, or (2) Align new medical care programs with the principles of the Canada Health Act, which is based on the underlying principle of health care for all. The findings in this analysis of Canada’s nascent national dental care plan might also be relevant to the much anticipated announcement of a national pharmacare plan.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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It’s time for OHIP to cover all forms of prescription contraception
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Who’s left out? Anyone older than 25 without a private health-care plan, temporary foreign workers in between contracts, people with refugee status, international students… In short: people with shifting economic and living realities and those for whom an unexpected or unwanted pregnancy would likely be especially destabilizing… Control over one’s own fertility is inherently tied to human dignity. A money-saving, life-improving policy that supports this should be a no-brainer.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, women
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The risks of ending safer supply drugs programs
Sunday, January 28th, 2024
21 of 24 federally funded safer supply programs are in jeopardy, as their contracts will expire in March. And with just two months until then, the feds have given no indication that they’ll renew their commitment to any of them. Ottawa’s silence on the matter is all the more disturbing given the recent, dramatic increase in overdose deaths — and the mounting evidence in support of safer supply.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Bleeding the patient: tracking five years of Ontario revenue reductions
Sunday, January 28th, 2024
Since 2018, the Ministry of Finance has made close to 30 policy changes that have cut taxes, cut fees, and paid out large sums in the form of tax credits. As the table below shows, those changes are draining a minimum of $7.7 billion from the provincial treasury in 2023-24… it looks like it’s coming out of public services… successive governments have deliberately bled themselves dry and then pled poverty afterward.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Ontario is dead last in program spending—again
Sunday, January 28th, 2024
In 2022, Ontario’s program spending per capita was $3,863 less than the average of the other provinces. This means that for every dollar per person spent on programs in other provinces, Ontario spent 75 cents… there is no evidence—and no one is claiming—that Ontario’s low spending is the result of some magical efficiency in program delivery here. There’s nothing efficient about having too few nurses.
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