Tag: Healthcare
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Four Ways the Ford Government is Privatizing Hospitals
Premier Doug Ford wants for-profit surgical clinics – but that is just one area where his government is privatizing hospitals. Unfortunately, there is so much more. The privatized American healthcare … Keep reading »
33,000 Missing Ontario Hospital Jobs and the Hospital Capacity Crisis
Hospitals in provinces other than Ontario have 18% more staff than hospitals in Ontario. Much, but not all, of this is due to low levels of inpatient staffing in Ontario. … Keep reading »
Health Coalition Kicks off Campaign to Save Public Hospitals
The Ontario Health Coalition released a brief on October 26 charging that the Doug Ford government lied to the public about its privatization of Ontario’s public hospital services. The Coalition … Keep reading »
Huge Cuts in Public Sector Wages Predicted
The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3% over the three year period 2021/2 – 2023/4. This would radically … Keep reading »
Hospital, Long-term Care Funding Cut by the Ford Conservative Government
The Financial Accountability Office has released the Ford PC government’s funding plans for the various healthcare sub-sectors. The news is not good. The funding plans for 2022/3 in several key … Keep reading »
Grotesque Ageism and Human Rights Violations by Ontario Government
The Doug Ford government in Ontario released its regulations under the euphemistically titled “More Beds, Better Care Act” (formerly Bill 7) on September 15th. The regulations are the details under … Keep reading »
Ontario’s Bill 7 Rife with Discrimination Against the Elderly
At a press conference held on August 31st, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced they … Keep reading »
Elderly Patients Forced into Long-Term Care: Ontario’s Healthcare Crisis
Here are the facts about the new legislation of Doug Ford’s Ontario Conservative government, Bill 7 – More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022, which was introduced in the Ontario Legislature … Keep reading »
The Ontario Government’s Plans for Healthcare Privatization and Seniors: Ontario Health Coalition Responds
The Ontario Conservative government of Doug Ford released what it called a five-point healthcare plan this morning in a press conference. In summary: On COVID-19 there was nothing new. On … Keep reading »
Ontario Government Refuses to Address the Healthcare Crisis
The Doug Ford government re-released its spring Budget this week with a new first quarter fiscal and economic update providing a little bit more information – albeit from a government … Keep reading »
Violence, Gender and Healthcare Provisioning in Ontario
Contrary to popular perception, there are more assaults in hospitals than in any other industry. Long-term care facilities are also major sites for assaults. Healthcare as a whole has by … Keep reading »
Ford’s Hallway Medicine: Declining Hospital Beds in Ontario
The massive cut in the number of hospital beds in Ontario in the 1990s is, by now, well known. Community and labour movement campaigns over the last fifteen years stopped … Keep reading »