Why isn’t the province making moves to deal with the surgical backlog directly through hospitals?
Yet I’m extremely leery, as though I’m being offered a free toaster to open a bank account. There are, after all, no free toasters.
“A lot of people want to have endless debates about who should provide care,” said Premier Doug Ford earlier this year in response to critics of the plan to outsource more surgeries to private companies. “All I care about … is that you get the care you need safely and quickly.” That only begs the question: If the Academic Orthopedic Surgical Associates of Ottawa can rent the operating room and pay nurses that much while maintaining the single-payer health-care model — ie. with OHIP covering everything — AND still make a profit, then why isn’t the province making moves to deal with the backlog directly through hospitals?
Surgical procedures at private clinics aren’t new, but there’s something about this one that’s different. The government has not been forthcoming about the arrangement, which only leads to questions.
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