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Taking Back Health Care: How to Accelerate People-Centred Reform Now
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
A set of public policies aimed at not just treating illness, but also promoting health and providing the infrastructure to support health resilience, will lead to a more affordable system in the long run and ultimately a greater public good… health is fundamental to the economic and social resiliency of our country and the well-being of its population. These expectations provide the road map for modernizing our health system.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Our health-care leaders wilfully ignored the benefits of virtual walk-in medical care
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
Conflating an association between virtual walk-in clinic visits and added ER visits with causation perpetuates the thinking of our health-care leaders’ that virtual walk-in clinics are subpar… How will our leaders explain all this to the 1.8 million Ontarians without a doctor, and to the millions more who cannot access their doctor in a timely fashion, who have had virtual care — their health care lifeline — mercilessly taken away from them?
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford’s private surgery plan is driven by ideology not innovation
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
… the government will expect the private facilities to take it upon themselves to prevent the luring of medical professionals from the public system. The foxes will be charged with guarding the henhouse… When the auditor general can find widespread abuse in the current limited private surgery sector, we can only shudder at what she’s likely to see after the government implements its plan to vastly expand private, for-profit surgeries.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Trusting the Ford government to get health reform right? That’s a big ask
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
… if you want doctors working overnight on-call shifts when you have a medical emergency, you want doctors to be associated with hospitals… public hospitals aren’t for-profit but they have budgets, and they make money on the easy procedures so that they can afford to handle the hard, necessary, more laborious ones… farming out easy surgeries without expanding public capacity needs to be considered carefully.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Ontario does not need more for-profit surgery
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Repealing Bill 124, for example, would be a first step in attracting nurses back to hospital ORs, and moving surgeries to dedicated community facilities could increase volumes by 30 per cent for roughly the same cost. But investing more broadly in for-profit surgery providers – which has enormous risks for hospital staffing, and will increase the costs passed on to patients and taxpayers – should not be on the table.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Our health-care system is broken. More of the same won’t fix it
Monday, January 16th, 2023
In fact, Canadian medicare is more costly than ever, and more expensive than in other countries with universal health care, yet less responsive to patient needs. What’s the remedy? … medicare has long relied on private operators who take payment from the government – not the patient – to deliver those services… voters will tire of the ideological rigidity that conflates medicare’s commendable values with a system that doesn’t always deliver measurable value for money.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Something really, really must be done: an urgent plea for the Canada Disability Benefit to become law in 2023
Monday, January 16th, 2023
The Canada Disability Benefit, a proposed federal disability benefit to complement the inadequate provincial supports, is essential to ending disability poverty… it is also essential that, with the implementation of CDB, there are no clawbacks, that health benefits, transportation allowances, adaptive equipment, employment supports and other in-kind benefits, available from provincial and territorial governments, must remain intact.
Tags: disabilities, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Public safety comes from curbing violence, not just reacting to it
Monday, January 9th, 2023
Smart investment in tackling the root causes of violence reduces the need for police responses after the fact… It is time to get upstream of the emergencies. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because it will alleviate the need for annual increases to policing that take away from so many other budget priorities.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Why don’t we zone for rental apartments?
Sunday, January 8th, 2023
The speculation-driven condo business model encourages high prices for land, a dynamic that favours firms that want to get in and out quickly instead of operating a rental building for decades… a dynamic encouraged by the strange fact that apartment buildings are taxed higher than condos. Today, we build almost nothing but condos.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty
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Health-care reform needs the discipline of deadlines
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Health-care needs more money. But money without the certainty of reform merely sets up the next cycle of failure. Political pressure might force each participant into agreeing to hard targets for improvement by set dates, before money is allowed to be on the agenda… The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) exists, in part, for just such a task. A rolling 12-month evaluation on progress toward agreed targets could become a permanent feature of Canadian health care.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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