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Trudeau has chance now to be unusually bold
Monday, November 18th, 2019
Trudeau may not be able to get all provinces to agree to, say, a universal pharmacare program. But that doesn’t preclude him from establishing the legislative framework for one… voters didn’t elect Liberals just so they could sit on their hands and apologize for not being from Alberta. They elected them to do something.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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End of HIV epidemic is within our grasp
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
… 19 per cent of Canadians diagnosed with HIV are not accessing treatment. Compared to all other G7 countries that have published figures on this measure, Canada ranks last. What sets us apart? For one, we are the only high-income country in the world with a public health-care system that lacks a country-wide pharmacare program… What are we waiting for?
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Demographics and disruption demands new skills in Canada’s health-care sector
Saturday, November 16th, 2019
… health care can provide a career path for one million Canadians who are currently at risk of losing their jobs to automation… Properly designed, this mix of technology, skills and innovative management can soften the landfall of the silver tsunami, and further prevent the cresting cost of health care from overwhelming government budgets. In this new machine age, our society’s health will depend on it.
Tags: economy, Health, participation, standard of living
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Hospital Beds and Long-Term Care Wait Lists
Friday, November 15th, 2019
Under current rules, hospitals may charge patients copayments for their room and board only if they require complex continuing care and are “more or less permanently resident” in hospital or waiting for an LTC bed. But they may not do so if the patient is awaiting discharge to home or community care. This creates a perverse incentive for hospitals to recommend LTC in order to get copayments, leading to longer waiting lists.
Tags: budget, Health, housing, standard of living, tax
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Video visits with doctors are a smart idea
Friday, November 15th, 2019
There are three much bigger issues the government needs to tackle to reduce the average wait time to be admitted to hospital from an emergency department. It now tops a sickening 16 hours. Those are a lack of nursing home and long-term health care beds and a shortage of home-care services. And they won’t be solved by the $3 million the province plans to spend on video visits and other digital innovations.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Some harsh lessons on the failings of eldercare from Down Under
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
The 272-page Australian report, in striking contrast, uses blunt language to reflect the frustrations and fears of patients and family members. It also demands immediate action, including an injection of funding for long-term home care services as a way to keep people out of institutional care.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario axing 9 execs in bid to save money, increase efficiencies in health care
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
A health ministry official said no other employees other than the head of the LHINs, which provide local health care planning, are being laid off now and no offices are closing, but in future there will be “significant” savings as real estate assets are consolidated… Under the plan, between 30 and 50 “Ontario Health Teams” will form across the province to co-ordinate all levels of care, from doctor visits to hospitals stays and home care.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Home-care agencies seek key role in Doug Ford’s health reforms
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
… the government’s restructuring of the health system and the creation of the Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) can make it easier for people to be cared for at home and can shift the burden of care away from hospitals when patients truly don’t need to be hospitalized… “Many of the solutions to hospital overcrowding lie outside hospital walls,”
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Marginalized people need social connections, too
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
… we almost never talk about the lack of opportunities for something pro-social and meaningful for the homeless and marginalized to do… Funding for programming, for actual engagement with others — especially those who are not easy to engage with — is the last to be offered and first to be cut.
Tags: disabilities, Health, homelessness, mental Health, participation
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Ford government’s rapid changes causing upheaval for non-profits, survey finds
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Nearly 30 per cent of non-profits surveyed said their budgets decreased as a result of provincial changes, and another 11 per cent were still uncertain whether their budgets would be cut several months after the budget was tabled. Some agencies surveyed raised concerns about the upheaval caused by the province abruptly changing funding commitments part-way through a non-profit’s financial year.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, philanthropy
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