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On Feb. 1 @fordnation Health Minister @celliottability announced plans to allow private clinics (Independent Health Facilities) operate for-profit hospitals in Ontario. #onpoli #cdnpoli 1/6
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On Feb. 1 @fordnation Health Minister @celliottability announced plans to allow private clinics (Independent Health Facilities) operate for-profit hospitals in Ontario. #onpoli #cdnpoli 1/6
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..The media missed it but it is a bombshell announcement. It means, for the first time since the inception of OHIP, an Ontario government would bring in U.S.-style for-profit hospitals. Under Ontario law, new for-profit hospitals are currently banned and have been since 1973.
..The media missed it but it is a bombshell announcement. It means, for the first time since the inception of OHIP, an Ontario government would bring in U.S.-style for-profit hospitals. Under Ontario law, new for-profit hospitals are currently banned and have been since 1973.
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...@fordnation's plan is a disaster. The for-profits do not have ICUs. They don't run teaching hospitals. They don't have sound oversight & quality of care regimes. They take as much profit out of our health care as possible, just like for-profit long-term care #LTC chains.
...@fordnation's plan is a disaster. The for-profits do not have ICUs. They don't run teaching hospitals. They don't have sound oversight & quality of care regimes. They take as much profit out of our health care as possible, just like for-profit long-term care #LTC chains.
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...To maximize profits they charge an array of user fees & extra bill patients on top of OHIP, undermining the foundational principle of public health care which is to be provided to all Canadians based on their medical need not their wealth.
...To maximize profits they charge an array of user fees & extra bill patients on top of OHIP, undermining the foundational principle of public health care which is to be provided to all Canadians based on their medical need not their wealth.
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...And, devastatingly, the for-profits take only the lightest, profitable surgeries & diagnostics -- & the funding and staffing resources that go with them -- leaving our public hospitals with less funding & staff to care for those with more complex care needs.
...And, devastatingly, the for-profits take only the lightest, profitable surgeries & diagnostics -- & the funding and staffing resources that go with them -- leaving our public hospitals with less funding & staff to care for those with more complex care needs.
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...It is a violation of our fundamental morals to subvert care to profit.
TONIGHT 7 pm we fight back.
EMERGENCY SUMMIT for all who care about privatization, #LTC cuts, hospitals, home care & improving care for patients not profits.
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...It is a violation of our fundamental morals to subvert care to profit.
TONIGHT 7 pm we fight back.
EMERGENCY SUMMIT for all who care about privatization, #LTC cuts, hospitals, home care & improving care for patients not profits.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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