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The Ford government’s health reform is clear as mud
Friday, March 1st, 2019
The possibility that these teams, which might include doctors and hospitals, along with home care agencies and long-term care homes, could share one budget has the potential to deliver positive change. It would provide a clearer incentive to ensure that patients can access the right care in the right place, which generally costs far less than waiting for things to escalate into crisis. But if this is also the government’s way to shave dollars out of the health budget, that potential goes right out the window.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health
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Fiscal Transparency: How the Federal Government Can Get an A+
Friday, March 1st, 2019
To start, make the key numbers in the 2019 budget easy to find: up front, and clearly identified… produce estimates that matched the budget and the financial statements… the 2018 budget’s reconciliation of its projections with the anticipated estimates was unclear and incomplete… Timely reporting helps legislators and citizens spot – and, if needed, demand action to correct – deviations from plans that make no sense and/or threaten the fiscal plan.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Is it too late to reconsider Ontario’s new health care super agency?
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
… the government will create a super agency called Ontario Health, which will become the single point of accountability for all health services in the province… It seems our ministry is forecasting several years of turgid inertia while Ontario Health and Ontario Health Teams organize their new structures… Massive new bureaucracy, maintenance of old bureaucracy and a low rules environment where we will design the future of Ontario health systems “on the fly.”
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Patients lose out in Ford’s health-care ‘reform’
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
… Ontario faces years of chaos and turmoil as the entire health-care system adjusts to yet another in a long line of bureaucratic transformations… fixing hospital overcrowding doesn’t require a super agency; it requires more money for hospital and long-term care beds… The current mess in home care is the result of inadequate funding and the availability of personal support workers and other professionals… Third, there’s no move to increase access to a family doctor for patients currently without one…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology
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Ontario’s new plan for health care echoes past prescriptions
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Elliott is now promising “transformation” of the system. She will deliver “patient-centred care.” And she intends to move people through a “siloed” system “seamlessly.” That’s precisely the wording used by the previous Liberal health minister, Dr. Eric Hoskins… Connectivity can be a good thing but it is not a sure thing — it can’t conjure up co-ordination, efficiencies and extra beds on demand. Buzzwords are not benchmarks… the question is whether these reforms are truly transformational or merely aspirational.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Doug Ford’s health care ‘super agency’ is a solution in search of a problem
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
a recent Conference Board of Canada comparative assessment of the provincial health systems ranked Ontario as the second-best performer in the country, behind only B.C. As is true with the analysis from the Ford government on a host of issues, the real story is more complex than they are letting on, and the fix is missing the bigger set of issues at stake, namely how to create an effective and responsive health care system.
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One solution to the current autism funding crisis
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
… parent-mediated models have been running since 2016, with regular reporting to the ministry. In many cases, parents and toddlers are making significant gains. While these particular models may not be the solution for all children and families, the resource efficiency of parent-mediated models makes this an appealing approach worthy of further investment and exploration.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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When will Canada treat First Nations women and men as equals?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
… the change dubbed “6(1)(a) all the way,” would give all First Nations women and their descendants born prior to April 17, 1985, the exact same Indian status designation as status men and their children. The Senate passed this vital legal change but it was challenged by the government and the bill sent back to the Senate. The feds fear the “all the way” amendment could mean an extra 80,000 to 2 million people will claim to be status Indians.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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Alberta makes the biggest strides as child poverty rates drop across Canada
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Alberta has the lowest child poverty rate in the country at 5 per cent, having managed to cut its rate in half in just two years, between 2015 and 2017… University of Calgary economist Ron Kneebone pointed to the national Canada Child Benefit and, at least in Alberta, the Alberta Child Benefit, as the biggest reasons for this improvement. Both were introduced in recent years to provide better income supports for parents.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Attorney General Caroline Mulroney boosts rape crisis centre funding by $1 million
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
A decade ago, they logged 30,000 calls a year — now, more than 50,000… “This is funding that was committed to the centres last spring, which has not been disbursed … Survivors in our province deserve predictable multi-year funding that enables organizations to have stability. This one-time handout falls woefully short of what is needed to tackle staggering waiting lists across Ontario to access counselling.”
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