The Government of #Ontario has published a new webpage that covers what to do if you've been charged by a private clinic for insured services https://www.ontario.ca/page/community-surgical-and-diagnostic-centres. This website has been present since at least January 2, 2024. This is not as indepth as their previous site.
#bill60
@SnowshadowII @lauriekay9 @dan613
#DougFord privatized Ontario healthcare with no mandate from the people. Not a word was spoken on the campaign trail. His minions pulled together #Bill60 behind the fog of the pandemic and announced it.. fait accompli.
https://breachmedia.ca/everything-wrong-with-ontarios-health-care-privatization-law/
UPDATE: For over six weeks, urgently needed drugs and supplies have been showing up late, or not at all, for home care patients in #Ontario.
Patients continue to suffer and die while waiting for medication as the province struggles to roll out a new supply chain for Ontario Health atHome (prev. CCAC/LHIN)
The Ford #Conservative govt refuses to reveal which private companies were awarded the province's home care business.
#dougFord #onpoli #bill60 #cdnpoli
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/dying-ontario-patients-caught-in-home-care-supply-shortage
#DougFord's Ontario ⤵️
Welland woman can no longer order all the items she needs to get fed.
‘We’re panicking,’ says home care co-ordinator dealing with supply shortage crisis with ‘no end in sight’
#DougFord is sending you $200 bucks so you will forget that he fukked up Ontario's Home Care agency so badly that "nurses are boiling and reusing sterile syringes - ones they have bought on Amazon because the province could not supply them"
The #Ontario #Conservative govt refuses to answer questions about their new medical supply system, including what private companies were awarded the province's business.
via/Avis Favaro @ctvnews
@Rural_Canadian I'm sorry to hear how badly the healthcare system has failed you. Sadly, this is often the case in rural #Ontario.
And usually in true-blue Con ridings. 🤷♀️
This week, the #DougFord Conservative govt voted down an NDP motion to expand OHIP coverage to include mental health services.
"Mental health is healthcare, but when Ontarians make the decision to seek care, they often find that care is both unavailable and unaffordable." --MPP Lisa Gretzky, Windsor.
1. "#DougFord is paying private, for-profit clinics more than hospitals for OHIP-covered surgeries"
2. A new 300,000-sq-foot private medical facility in Richmond Hill intended to house surgical suites, recovery rooms, eye surgery unit, diagnostic imaging clinic, primary care, specialist clinics, and pharmacy is waiting to be licensed by the #Ontario govt.
Former #Toronto mayor John Tory is pulling the levers to make that happen...
#onpoli #bill60
https://www.pelhamtoday.ca/local-news/philanthropists-350-million-bet-on-ontarios-private-medical-clinic-regime-nearing-completion-9708199
Theo Moudakis // Toronto Star
#shoppersDrug #dougFord #bill60 #ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli #conservatives
"Galen's Weston's long game is to own primary care, from end to end. He's been very successful."
"In September, private companies including (surprise) Shopprs Drug Mart
became responsible for distribution of homecare medical supplies - "simply an exercise in cost savings" - as patients suffer unnecessarily.
In other words, the ongoing playbook of the #DougFord Conservative govt in #Ontairo" -- Dr. Nancy Olivieri
#bill60 #onpoli #toronto cc @Corruptario
https://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/doctors-say-medical-supply-shortage-is-causing-unnecessary-suffering-for-patients-who-choose-to-die/article_1a7a5d26-ea42-58d7-ad2a-f34904ece6e1.html
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"Just my own observation, but pretty sure most of the folks I saw in the overrun, underfunded Emergency last night would have gladly taken an adequately funded public health system over a $200.00 cheque to buy a couple hundred bucks of booze at the corner store."
-- Dr. Thomas Piggott, #Peterborough
#DougFord #conservatives #bill60 #sylviaJones #onpoli, #ontario #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Breast-cancer survivors in #Ontario are calling for changes to cover breast prostheses that fits inside mastectomy bras.
The province currently covers $195 for one prosthesis, but they cost $400 to $500 each. That amount of $195 was set back in 2006 and has not been updated.
"No additional reviews are planned for this time" said a Ministry of Health spokesperson.
#dougFord #bill60 #onpoli #cancer #toronto
https://www.tvo.org/article/advocates-urge-ontario-to-change-funding-for-breast-prostheses-ostomy-supplies
The quotes and details are from CTV health reporter Avis Favaro who is working hard to uncover this latest #DougFord FU.
👉 "I am hearing it is described internally as a "crisis" with people given talking points TO AVOID MAKING THIS PUBLIC." -Avis Favaro
Doug Ford's #Ontario
REMINDER:
'Christine Elliott, our immediate past health minister is lobbying the current health minister on behalf of a private, for-profit company that's already profiteering in our healthcare system to increase base funding to allow that company to profiteer EVEN MORE'
-- Dr. Adil Shamji, Toronto
#privatization #onpoli #dougFord #bill60 #sylviaJones #toronto #cdnpoli #conservatives
Reminder: Ontario’s Auditor General found the #DougFord government did not track ER closures let alone have a plan to resolve them.
Same goes for nursing and doctor shortages. No plans. No action.
Ontario’s Premier abdicated provincial healthcare responsibilities to benefit private interests. #ontario #bill60. https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/reporttopics/health.html
@hfinyow @npilon @shadowpages @johncormier
Weird how #DougFord never accuses Galen Weston of "being greedy"
#Loblaws #onpoli #Poilievre #lobbyists #cdnpoli #shoppers #bill60
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