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Ontario: Brutal under-funding punishes health and education
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
What’s happening in health care, education, and other services tells a story of a government that simply refuses to invest in the services Ontarians need… The current crisis in Ontario health care stems not only from the pandemic, but also from bad public policy… coupled with tax cuts that have been implemented, it results in a shrinking public sector and weakened public services. That opens the door to increased private profit-making off of the public services that Ontarians hold dear.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Justin Trudeau vows to defend Canada Health Act, not revisit it
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
… amid growing concern about health-care companies finding creative ways around the constraints of the law. Justin Trudeau said Monday he won’t hesitate to claw back money from provinces that violate the Canada Health Act… the parliamentary secretary to the minister of health addressed those concerns, saying legislation the Ford government has introduced will require extra charges… be made public, and ensuring each centre has a process for receiving and responding to patient complaints.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Affordability — not inflation — is the biggest crisis Canada’s economy faces today
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Five fiscal approaches… could lower costs, tackle long-term affordability and create more economic resilience… Reform Employment Insurance… Build more affordable rental housing… Fund school food programs… Focus on low-income households for energy-efficiency retrofits… [and] Avoid wasting money in health care… All governments need to prevent the galloping profitization of care…
Tags: economy, featured, Health, housing, immigration, Indigenous, standard of living
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Ontario, federal government reach agreement in principle on health care
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
… the province accepted the 10-year deal on Wednesday after the two sides agreed to add reviews into the deal to ensure long-term sustainability… The priority areas outlined in the deal include mental health, primary care and increasing the number of health-care workers… Duclos said the province’s bilateral agreement would include working toward certain health indicators, agreeing to provide “equity of access’’ for underserved groups and upholding the Canada Health Act…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health
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New health care funding should open doors to family doctors
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
The college recommends primary care teams include nurses, who co-ordinate care and offer clinical support, and mental health workers, who provide psychological and addictions counselling and connect patients with social supports… the college also advises streamlining and centralizing the referral process for tests and specialists, and connecting electronic medical records with hospitals and home and community care.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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The truth (and the costs) behind public payment for private surgeries
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
While the provinces should be applauded for funding more surgical procedures, why restrict new funding solely to private enterprises, when many public hospitals have capacity to provide more surgery with additional funding? There is no compelling business reason, especially if both private and public facilities will be paid at the same rate.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Province changing health-care status quo: MPP
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
… Your Health: A Plan for Convenient and Connected Care… lays out a broad series of initiatives that will provide the right care in the right place, deliver faster access to care and hire more health-care workers… the plan includes expanding the role of pharmacists… Youth Wellness Hubs; and expanding team-based care through Ontario Health Teams to better connect and co-ordinate people’s care within their own community.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Canada’s vanishing health care crisis
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Health care spending is actually declining this year on average, once population growth is factored in… Only the three Maritime provinces are planning to boost health care spending faster than the increase in the federal transfer… the contrast between the urgent rhetoric of the premiers and the tepid growth of spending underscores, again, the need to firmly place the responsibility for health care funding on the provinces.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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No Strings Attached: Canada’s health care deal lacks key conditions
Friday, February 17th, 2023
… despite provincial ad campaigns that show destitute doctors and nurses begging for federal funding, the question of who is responsible for the crisis in Canadian health care is not so clear cut. Health care is a provincial jurisdiction and the big provinces are flush with cash. It’s not money stopping them from fixing their systems, it’s political will.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Meet the Canadian-born doctors who can’t work in Canada
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
With Canada experiencing such an acute shortage of doctors… the roadblocks thrown up by provinces and regulatory bodies are puzzling. “The country should be grateful that these Canadians are willing to come back and be completely overworked and underpaid… And you didn’t even have to pay to educate them.”
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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