Premier Doug Ford said in the Legislature that the bill will shorten patient waiting lists and bring more convenient health care closer to home for residents.
“I am very concerned about what this bill means for the future of Ontario,” Stiles said.Critics point to private orthopedic surgeries done by a group called AOAO that have been taking place at The Ottawa Hospital’s Riverside campus on Saturdays in recent months as an example. Many nurses working there come from the public hospital system and are being paid more for their work with the private group.
The Ottawa Hospital, which is dealing with nursing shortages, says it has been closely monitoring the private surgeries and that they are not impacting the public system. It also says the private partnership means it has freed operating rooms for more patients. Until recently, though, some early-stage breast cancer patients at the hospital faced among the longest waits in the province, forcing some to pay for private surgery, a situation the hospital says it has since improved.
Natalie Mehra, who heads the Ontario Health Coalition said, despite promises, the bill effectively has “no guardrails, no inspection system and no one is enforcing laws for extra billing. There is no excuse for this.” “There should be only one shareholder when it comes to our health-care system, and that’s the patient.”
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