Post #671140
2023-11-14 12:08 UTC
"If I were running that centre, I would be a millionaire" - #DougFord gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives #Ontario's public #hospitals to perform the same operations.
Ford and his health minister [#SylviaJones] have pitched this expansion as a cost-efficient way to get more surgeries done and reduce wait times.
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The rates paid to Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. have never before made public.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinic-surgeries-fees-hospitals-1.7026926
#NoPrivatizedHealthcare
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@myeyesaredim@mstdn.ca 2023-11-14 12:27
Increased use of private for-profit surgery clinics came to light earlier this year: as much as $23.4 million has been set aside for private and for-profit health care providers to assist with Ontario’s hospital recovery over the 2022-23 year. “We’ve got operating rooms in the public system that are not operating and instead they’re going to fund these private clinics, which will cost more and fragment the system,” said Ross Sutherland from https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9329915/ontario-private-hospital-health-facility-funding/