Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
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Doug Ford’s government is quietly privatizing health care
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Recently, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced the expansion of private hospitals in Ontario… “we can let independent health facilities operate private hospitals.”… [which] sounds a whole lot better than this: “We will award public funds to private, for-profit hospitals and clinics, knowing that these private facilities are associated with worse care, higher costs and more deaths.”
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Tuition should be free. Anything else imposes a regressive barrier to accessing higher education
Friday, March 11th, 2022
In 1990, just before Mike Harris unleashed his “common sense revolution,” roughly 20 per cent of Ontario universities’ operating income came from tuition. That figure is now more than 50 per cent, which means Ontario is well on its way to privatizing higher education… the federal government also contributes to inequitable access… An RESP is essentially a federal handout to the upper-middle classes — and the banks and markets that end up receiving those monies.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization, standard of living
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Long banned in Ontario, private hospitals could soon reappear
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
… with the chaos created by COVID as a cover, the Ford government seems poised to allow a considerable expansion of private health care in the province… a dramatic development, allowing hospitals — the centrepieces of our health-care system — to be governed by corporate boards that prioritize profits, as in the U.S… private hospitals would undermine medicare by enabling well-to-do patients to gain faster access to treatment.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, privatization
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Why Canada hasn’t been getting the new antibiotics we need to fight drug-resistant ‘superbugs’
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
… due to the cost of developing these drugs and their susceptibility to eventual resistance, many pharmaceutical companies have abandoned antibiotic development… newer antibiotics are used only as a last resort, reducing the volume of sales and return on investment for companies that are still willing to bear the costs of development… [and] manufacturers still producing antibiotics tend to shy away from the Canadian market due to Canada’s small population, financial barriers in our publicly funded system and burdensome regulatory processes.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Could a $10-a-day deal hurt Ontario’s thousands of child-care businesses?
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
… nobody is worse off, and more are better off. The new federal funding expands and improves the quality of care, helping licensed businesses stay afloat and focus on the business of care. It creates more better-paid job opportunities… And it reduces uncertainty for parents and providers in tandem, instead of waiting for markets to deliver what they haven’t — quality care where and when it is needed.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, participation, privatization, standard of living, women
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NUPGE report warns against privatization through virtual health care
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
… the increase in ‘virtual’ health care during the pandemic is creating more private, for-profit delivery of health services…. “However, any for-profit virtual clinic that continues to bill users directly, or through private insurance plans, appears to be at odds with the preamble of the Canada Health Act, which calls for ‘continued access to quality health care without financial or other barriers.’”
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, privatization
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Lower drug prices are a priority for Canadians, but not for the federal government
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
While the federal government has been bowing to the pharmaceutical industry, the amount that Canadians spend on medicines has continued to rise. In 2020, Canadians spent an estimated $32.7 billion, 4.3 per cent more than the previous year. Meanwhile, more than two-in-five Canadians are concerned about their ability to afford prescription drugs in 10 years.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Israel capped CEO pay for banking execs at $1 million. Its unique experiment could work here, too
Friday, January 14th, 2022
Over the years, the ratio between those who hold the top jobs and regular employees has gone up tremendously. Justifications for this were always based on arguments that CEO pay is set in a competitive market. The reality, however, is different. CEO pay has no equilibrium and continues to ratchet up endlessly… For too long we’ve been brainwashed by free-market myths about CEO pay. The natural experiment in Israel has refuted them.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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After decades of delay, national child-care plan proves an ambitious social agenda is possible
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
… now that it’s clear a national child-care system is politically viable, it will be up to the Trudeau government to ensure that the one it’s started to build is strong — and public. The success of Scandinavian-style child care stems from the fact that it is a truly public system — like our school system — with no place for private profit-making, which leads to cutting corners on staff and resources.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, privatization
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What do we want our health-care system to do, and how much are we willing to pay?
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
In late 2019, the Ontario Hospital Association published a report touting the sector’s history of efficiency while warning that the efficiencies had come at a cost. It noted that, if Ontario funded its hospital system just to the level of the Canadian average, that would cost another $4 billion annually. But almost all Canadian provinces have relatively few beds per capita compared with other wealthy countries…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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