Millions in public funds now being used to subsidize privatized for-profit healthcare
SooToday received the following open letter from the Algoma District of the Retired Teachers of Ontario addressed to MPP Ross Romano regarding Ontario’s privatizing of healthcare delivery.
The Ontario government maintains that there is a need to reform Ontario’s health care system. Certainly, there is a need for improvement. But Ontario funds its hospitals at the lowest rate in Canada. As a result of government policy, we have the fewest hospital beds per capita of any province. A concern of the financial accountability officer is that the government contingency fund has grown from the traditional $1 billion to $3.5 billion. This is while the public health care system is in crisis and in need of funding.
Health Minister Sylvia Jones has described the provision of health care under the Your Health Act as a business model. RTOERO notes that operating health care as a business failed many Canadian seniors during the pandemic. A business model does not serve the best interests of patients. It serves the best interests of healthcare companies and investors.
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