A new study provides more evidence that Ford's private, for-profit model benefits the rich: "....the rates of surgeries in these clinics fell 9% for Ontario’s poorest patients. At the same time, rates rose 22% for province’s wealthiest patients." bit.ly/4fY4jqN

Despite higher death rates in for-profit LTC, despite worse staffing levels, despite more falls for residents, higher rates of ulcer, more verified complaints, and other indicators of poor quality care, Doug Ford continues to privilege profiteers over ordinary people #ONpoli

Leonora Foster has been working at SickKids for 36 years. If she retires next year, her current pension plan would provide a monthly payment of $1,930. She has joined the call for SickKids to switch the HOOPP, where her monthly payments would be $3,000 bit.ly/4dHd8Uj

"Our health care system is gradually being sold off to investors who can profit by serving the affluent at the expense of ordinary people. This two-tier model goes against the foundational principle of public health care in Canada: access based on need, not on ability to pay.”

Private hospitals in action: ‘Acadia is one of America's largest chains of psychiatric hospitals. Acadia lured patients into its facilities and held them against their will, detaining them for financial reasons rather than medical ones., nytimes.com/2024/09/01/bus…

Today, at 10am, we will be releasing a new research report at Queen's Park showing the government's plan to add 3,000 hospital beds by 2032 will fall well short of projected needs & exacerbate "hallway healthcare" - already at an all-time high. #onpoli bit.ly/3TfzR1y

Our new report: No Respite: Ontario's Failure to Plan for Hospital Patients shows an alarming shortfall between the government's plan and the resources needed in our hospitals, including a 13,800 projected bed shortage by 2032. #ONpoli

New research reveals a grim state of affairs for Ontario's hospitals because Doug Ford is stubbornly sticking to austerity & privatization when we desperately need investments in our public system:

New: An 83-year-old with dementia was fined more than $28,000 for refusing a long-term care home placement not of her choosing. Five people have been fined under Bill 7. The Ford government refuses to divulge the total $ amount. No paywall 🔓 #onpoli thetrillium.ca/news/health/on…

Ontario needs five times more time hospital beds than planned by the Ford government. In 2018, Ford said he would end hallway healthcare. In 2024, he’s joking about veterinary hospitals handling overflow. It begs the question: has this government given up on the hospital crisis?

The Doug Ford government had a chance to end Ontario's health-care staffing crisis on June 5. Instead, they chose to defeat Bill 192, which would have mandated nurse-patient staffing ratios across the province. Why are they against nurse-patient staffing ratios? #onpoli

2,500 of 30,000 new LTC beds have been built & hundreds have closed as the owners turn them into condos. 40,000 people are waiting for placement. Now that the alcohol availability crisis has been averted, perhaps the Ford government could turn its mind to this problem.

Average wait-time for a hospital bed has gone up by nearly 7% over the past year (19 hours compared to 17.8 in 2023). But our Premier has other priorities.

Hallway healthcare has worsened 100% since Doug Ford's election in 2018. While people are suffering in stretchers waiting to be admitted, Ford's making cracks about treating them in veterinary hospitals and liberalizing booze sales. thetrillium.ca/news/health/ho…

TOP 10 MYTHS about health care privatization: from funding to wait times, read on to see why these claims are false. ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/myth…

"To justify privatization, Doug Ford has claimed that 'throwing more money at it' won't make a difference. The evidence shows otherwise. After huge cuts in the '90s...reinvestment & funding increases in the early 2000s did indeed reduce wait times."

We've led the fightback on this for literally decades. We weren't asked, but if we were, we would have pointed out that Ontario not only has the fewest hospital beds left of all the provinces in Canada, it is almost last among all OECD nations. Why? 1/6>> thetrillium.ca/news/health/ho…

... Because every service cut from public hospitals is privatized. (Eg. They cut the chronic care beds... & privatized them to for-profit long-term care chains. They cut wound care & privatized it, etc.) Because Ontario funds our hospitals at the lowest rate in Canada. 2/6>>

In 2018 Doug Ford promised to bring an end to hallway healthcare. After six years of Ford Conservatives' cuts to public healthcare, hallway medicine is the worst it's ever been in Ontario. Promise made. Promise Broken. #onpoli #HallwayHealthcare

See you all on Sunday, September 15 at 1pm at Toronto City Hall!