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#cdnpoli
#onpoli
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#SaveHealthcareDumpFord

Privatized or 2-tier healthcare inevitably leads to doctors leaving public sector for greater income, (cont.)

Why private, for-profit health care is a terrible idea @TC_Africa theconversation.com/why-private-fo…
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#VoteFordOut2022
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(cont.) forcing the public system to raise maximum fee schedules to compete for doctors. Finding a family doctor in the public sector will become even more difficult.

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Progressives who don't vote strategically, WILL re-elect #DougFord. Go to:

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These are just 4 of the effects of a 2-tier healthcare system:

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❌ provincial plans will be forced to raise maximum (cont.)
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(cont.) fee schedules to stop a mass exodus of doctors from provincial systems

❌ finding a family doctor in the public sector will become virtually impossible

❌ medical bills will cause bankruptcies.
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Even with 2-tier healthcare, prices for medical services will skyrocket. Why?

○ 1,000s of doctors will opt out of OHIP & other provincial systems to charge any amount

○ OHIP & other systems will (cont.)
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(cont) increase maximum fee amounts to prevent a mass exodus of doctors from their plans

also

○ with fewer doctors in provincial plans, it'll be even more difficult to find a family doctor

○ rich people will jump the line
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