Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced his next step in expanding American-style for-profit health care to Canada by now using more public dollars to fund private facilities. It’s a move that will cost more while not addressing the actual problem of understaffed hospitals.
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Sources:
https://bit.ly/3HaZX01 (Doug Ford pitches private surgeries offered by his donors as solution to Ontario Health Care, Press Progress)
https://bit.ly/3QNAHjV (Ortho PA on Twitter)
https://youtu.be/22EY0xhfEB8 (Doug Ford ‘Goes American’ On Canadian Health Care, The Rational National)
https://bit.ly/3ITBkGq (Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones defends upselling, CBC News)
https://bit.ly/3XEUTXs (Are Premium Lenses Worth The Cost With Cataract Surgery, Baton Rouge Eye Physicians)
https://bit.ly/3Wd1rLv (Cataract and Lens Exchange Surgeries, Ontario Ministry of Health)
https://bit.ly/3XH0ZXj (Our health care system is broken. Here’s how we can fix it, Maclean’s)
https://bit.ly/3XisnLk (Lobbyists guarantee that for-profit cataracts will pay more, The Star)
https://bit.ly/3QNsSKJ (Owners of company lobbying to expand private health care donated to Doug Ford, Press Progress)
https://bit.ly/3CX7BJ8 (NDP MPP Chandra Pasma)
https://bit.ly/3WbXVBe (Provinces using investor-owned for-profit clinics to cut wait times heading towards predictable failure, BC Health Coalition)
https://tgam.ca/3Xx4C1I (thumbnail credit to THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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