Thanks Ford.
Why do things keep getting worse no matter how much funding we cut?!
The only answer is privatization obviously /s
This strategy is called “Starve the beast.”
They destroy a public service by under-funding it, then insist that the only way to fix it is to privatize.
It’s so disheartening. A true leader would address the problem no matter how complex and instead of proper leadership what we’re getting is the lazy response, and being perfectly clear privatization is the lazy response.
A true leader would have a plan. Throw money to get people in the door to do the support be it nurses or family doctors. We need heads and the easiest way to do that is immediately throwing cash at it. But beyond that, the behaviour of this, and past governments have created this environment and that needs to stop. We need to stop going to war with our public unions and start paying them properly instead of nickel & diming every chance we get. If paying them more means cutting somewhere else or gasp raising taxes then fucking do it.
Furthermore, this is not up to the Provinces alone. The Federal government needs to also start leading and stop fucking the dog and nickle & diming every chance they get.
All levels of government are perpetuating this extremely toxic environment that is leading all western nations to fascism and it’s scary AF.
He has a plan. He’s a businessman. This is a business move: starve the public system to implement a for-profit system that benefits him and his friends.
You can thank the 60% of Ontarians who couldn’t get off their ass and vote in 2022 because “nothing’s gonna change, all parties are the same” or whatever
Just remember that the Ford government is responsible for healthcare in Ontario, and it appears they are massively underspending.
Because they want to sabotage the public system to point the finger at it and go “look, it’s not working” before replacing it with a privatized, for-profit system that benefits him and his rich friends.
They are already replacing it
We have the biggest health care budget in history so we can build hospitals and clinics for private companies. Public hospitals already use private nurses and they get paid 2x the public nurses (costs us 8x because of company fees)
The only difference it makes to us is higher taxes and lower quality of care (he made a law that they can’t be held accountable/not responsible for malpractice)
Damn, those conservatives sure run a tight ship.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But according Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency physician who works in three Toronto hospitals, an eight-hour wait time “shatters any notion of what is acceptable medical care” in Canada.
Venugopal doesn’t blame emergency room staff, but says the worsening trend of chronically strained Ontario hospitals is making it nearly impossible to meet national Canadian health-care standards.
Snider says emergency room patients often can’t get an inpatient hospital bed because they are filled with people waiting for space in other areas of the health-care industry, such as long-term care homes or rehabilitation clinics.
Vojdani says one of the things that could take pressure off emergency departments is investing in primary care, whose doctor shortage currently leaves over two million Ontarians needing a family physician.
Venugopal says the province needs to robustly increase hospital capacity and better incentivize work, adding that it could also experiment with expanding virtual care and not-for-profit beds in the community.
Venugopal adds that while Ontarians could also help take strain off emergency rooms by keeping vaccinations up to date and staying home while sick, nurses and physicians will always tend to injured and critically ill patients.
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In Quebec we dream about Ontario healthcare. People even drive to Hawkesbury to go to the hospital there instead of Montreal.
Why didn’t that baby pull up itself by its bootstraps? Bloody moocher!
