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Ontario’s looming health care reforms are being rushed through to limit public scrutiny, critics say
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
TheStar.com Politics/Provincial Politics Feb. 11, 2019. By ROB FERGUSON, Queen’s Park Bureau The Ford government’s looming health-care system “transformation” is being rushed through with little explanation to limit scrutiny by the public, the Ontario Health Coalition charges. Citing confidential draft legislation and other documents leaked to the New Democrats indicating elements of the plan — […]
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, privatization
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Charting the Path to National Pharmacare in Canada
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
… a federally financed, regulated and administered pharmacare program… is constitutionally feasible because of the federal government’s current jurisdiction over drug safety, price regulation and patent protection. While it is generally assumed that federalism and provincial jurisdiction over health stand in the way of a federal government public single payer program, the provinces have supported this option in the past, with the caveat that special arrangements may have to be made for Quebec.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Tilting at windmills won’t solve our health-care woes
Monday, February 4th, 2019
Almost all health services are contracted out to private providers – doctors (most of whom are corporations), hospitals (which are not-for-profit corporations), pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers (for-profit corporations), home care and long-term care facilities (a mix of non-profit and for-profit corporations) and so on…. we have the least-universal universal health-insurance system in the world. More than 30 per cent of care is paid for privately.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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We know the problems in health care; get moving on the fix
Monday, February 4th, 2019
… either the Ford government doesn’t have a plan or it has a secret plan. Neither option provides the slightest cause for confidence in this government, or its ability to tackle a problem with as many moving parts as health care… The Ford government should just get moving on the necessary retooling of health care to expand and better integrate home care, community supports and long-term beds to provide for Ontarians long before they get to a hospital hallway.
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Mental health is health care’s orphan
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
The recent Health Accord between Canada and the provinces will invest $5-billion in mental-health services over 10 years, but spending will still be short of the annualized $3.1-billion investment that is required to reach the Mental Health Commission target of 9 per cent of health spending.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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It’s ideology vs. science in psychology’s war on boys and men
Friday, February 1st, 2019
What kind of families produce violent young men? Fatherless families… If it is fatherless boys who are violent, how can it be that masculine socialization produces harm both to mental health and society? … The document produced by the APA purporting to provide guidelines for the psychological treatment of boys and men is disingenuous, scientifically fraudulent and ethically reprehensible.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, youth
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So-called ‘super agency’ not a magic cure for Ontario’s health-care woes
Friday, February 1st, 2019
All of these problems are well-known. The fixes for them are well-known, too. None of them involves merging all the province’s health-care agencies into one… If we want a super-agency to oversee all of health care, wouldn’t that be the health ministry? If the ministry doesn’t do that, what does it do? … Rather than waste time, money and energy on reshaping the health bureaucracy, the Ford government should move directly to specific solutions to well-identified problems.
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Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine Releases First Report
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Hallway Health Care: A System Under Strain identifies three key findings: Difficulty navigating the health care system and long wait times… The system… does not have the appropriate mix of services, beds or digital tools to be ready for the expected increase in complex care needs. More effective coordination at the system level and at the point-of-care would make the system more efficient
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People with mental illness don’t need more talk
Monday, January 28th, 2019
It does no good to raise awareness if you have an underfunded mobile crisis team that only has the capacity to go out on calls for 12 hours a day, or if patients wait months for assessment, or if you can’t provide stable, supportive housing for those who need it so they can recover and carry on with happy and productive lives. Let’s talk about that.
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Pharmacare and Politics
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Rather than going for an expensive single-payer model, we think Ottawa would be far better off with a “gap-filling” model. Under that approach, each province and territory would create a public pharmacare plan that would automatically cover anyone who wasn’t already covered by an existing public plan, or by a government-approved private plan. As an inducement, the federal government could offer a modest enhancement of the Canada Health Transfer, or offer to pay part of the incremental cost that each province would incur by offering such a plan.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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