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Ontario’s health-care system isn’t candy store to be plundered
Thursday, August 25th, 2022
With our health-care system reeling, Ford is charging ahead with further privatization — Ontario health care is already 40 per cent private — and selling this as a way to save the system through “innovation.” … The system’s problems have been thoroughly studied by countless commissions and the solutions do not involve privatization… Ontario has lots of unused hospital operating rooms, idled after years of cutbacks.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, privatization
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Canadians deserve high-quality care, but non-profit hiring crisis is standing in the way
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Community based non-profits are not given the funds to provide salaries on par with municipalities, schools boards and hospitals… significant wage disparity has meant a mass exodus of non-profit workers. As a result, quality of care for our loved ones is compromised as staff turnover interrupts programs and leaves gaps in staffing, disrupting critical relationships and care systems.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Reforming our approach to drugs
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
… while study after study confirms that criminalization has no effect on drug usage rates, it has created a vast transnational network of organized crime… the federal government’s expert task force last year recommended an end to our century-long experiment with prohibition. As its “core priority,” the force recommended Canada “immediately develop and implement a single public health framework with specific regulations for all psychoactive substances, including currently illegal drugs as well as alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis.”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Ontario is going to lean on private health facilities. Here’s what that could mean for our system
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
“What happens when you inject private money into the health-care system, there is a short term boost in capital … but that doesn’t last very long, and the costs will go up… systems with higher rates of private financing are negatively associated with universality, equity, accessibility and quality of care, as has previously been found in international literature reviews”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Doug Ford hasn’t revealed a plan to dismantle public health care — or one to fix it
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
It’s too easy to get bogged down on jurisdictional and ideological debates. Federal transfer payments are a chimera, just as privatization is a panacea if not done judiciously… Medicare never proscribed the private delivery of services — whether by doctors, pharmacies or clinics — it merely prescribed the public accessibility of medically necessary services without extra billing. Rather than fixate over privatization, let’s focus on innovation.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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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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Is it really an ER when it opens and closes constantly, or is it just a ‘room’?
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Ontario will “take bold action.” What else could this mean but the right-wing dream that never dies: privatizing public health care, on the model of highly profitable long-term-care homes… You can sense a new zeitgeist today in the rejection of neo-liberal globalization by the same parties in the U.S., U.K. and Canada that ushered it in. And in an openness to larger public activity on COVID and climate change.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario should ditch any plans to further privatize health care. It just doesn’t work — and usually makes matters worse
Friday, August 12th, 2022
First, the government should ditch any plans to further privatize the system… That’s because it benefits not those who need health care, but those who can pay the handsome user fees required by what in effect is two-tier health care. Second, the government would be wise to view this crisis as an opportunity — a chance to rationalize and expand a public system that by and large does work.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Ford government plans more low wages for women health care workers
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Ontario continues to pursue a low-wage strategy for the female health care workforce, a strategy that is quickly demolishing health care in Ontario… Everywhere, women health-care workers are quitting. It is even worse in the home care sector. We have had enough of the violence, the irregular work weeks, the unpaid time between clients, the lack of pensions, and the low wages.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Ford government plans more low wages for women health care workers
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
We are facing a major staffing crisis in health care and nowhere more so than in home care. Yet this government continues to pursue a low-wage strategy for the female health care workforce, a strategy that is quickly demolishing health care in Ontario. We need to end the war on women health care workers. We need a government that can help make home care an attractive place to work — not a worse place to work.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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