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WSIB cutting costs at expense of workers’ health, report says
Ontario’s worker compensation board is saving money by reducing spending on drug benefits for workplace accident victims and by providing financial incentives to their health-care providers to limit treatment time, a new report compiled by a Toronto-based legal clinic says… Since 2010, the WSIB has sought to reduce its $14 billion unfunded liability, but maintains that health outcomes are improving amongst injured workers.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Why has Ontario’s health system abandoned our kids?
The Ontario government must invest in: Early detection and prevention programs; More psychiatrists and health-care professionals; Specialized residential treatment programs; Post-residential treatment programs; Support for families; Navigation tools to help match people with available treatments; Public awareness in schools, the work place and the community… This is our cry for help and call to action to the government of Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Ontario autism program will soon include direct funding as option
… the $533-million Ontario Autism Program beginning next month will soon include a direct funding option, something families have long been clamouring for… A government-commissioned analysis about 10 years ago found that the average cost per hour for direct service was $55, versus $37 for direct funding — something Ontario’s auditor general highlighted in a 2013 report.
Tags: budget, disabilities, participation
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Canada must (and can) take control of drug prices
… $13.7-billion in patented medicines were sold in this country in 2014; if Canadians had paid the OECD average instead of our own inflated prices, the bill would have been $3.6-billion less… Prices for identical drugs vary between provinces, for no good reason; brand-name drugs are too often prescribed when similarly effective and much cheaper generics would do the job; and generic prices in Canada are also among the highest in the world.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Ontario Parents want help for their developmentally delayed adult-age children
Lengthy waiting lists remain for as many as 14,000 families whose children turn 18 and have to reapply for aid as they are cut off from funding they have enjoyed for years… the Liberals have doubled the budget for people with developmental disabilities since taking office in 2003. It now stands at $2.1 billion and last month’s provincial budget would increase that by $677 million
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Time to turn inclusive innovation rhetoric into reality
… given that economies are no better than the societies in which they are embedded, it is critical that business leaders turn their attention to them. We desperately need to maximize both growth and equality in society – the consequences of not doing so are dire. DSIPs offer a venue of constructive private-public experimentation.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Why rich kids deserve free drugs from pharmacare
… the rich don’t get a free ride either way. They pay more than their fair share in our (still) progressive tax system, for which they derive the same benefits as everyone else under medicare… Pharmacare isn’t charity, it’s efficiency. In future, as the private sector slowly rolls up drug benefits the way it has phased out pension plans, the pressure will increase on governments to pick up the slack.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living, tax
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Patchwork drug plans flout the foundations of medicare
Ontario has seven (soon to be eight) distinct public drug plans… Despite the number of state-funded programs, almost half of Canadians rely on private insurance for coverage, most of which is employer-based… In Ontario alone, one in four people between the ages of 25 and 64 do not have drug insurance, according to Health Quality Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, poverty, privatization, standard of living, youth
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… Top 23 takeaways from the Ontario budget
Ontario will become the first province to offer pharmacare to all young people, regardless of income, who are 24 and under. Some 4,400 prescription drugs will be covered… the abortion pill will provide an alternative to women seeing to end a pregnancy up to seven weeks… The province will spend $20 million to increase respite care for dementia patients and increase the number of seniors’ centres… From elementary schools to jails to seniors centres, the province is improving mental health services in many of its service areas…
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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