Premier Doug Ford’s government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario’s public hospitals to perform the same operations, CBC News has learned.
Can anyone point to anything that this government has done that hasn’t been a cynical attempt to steal our hard earned tax dollars and give them to Doug Ford’s wealthy friends? The Wynne government’s bungling of the gas plant seems so quaint now compared to the fuck you level corruption of Ford and his right wing junta
I had a long list of other stuff they’ve done but it was all bad so I wrote this line instead
Buck a beer?
They got rid of licence plate renewal fees. I think that was incredibly stupid. For the record, I didn’t like paying for it, but that was consistent easy money for the government
They did the same with nurses
Private nurses in our hospitals were paid twice as much as public ones and it cost us 8x as much because of agency fees
I don’t understand how a for-profit clinic is eligible for any goverment funding at all. If its for-profit, surely they can afford to fund themselves and leave the healthcare funding for the free health services.
That’s the model Ford has now - he’s going to pay private hospitals to have surgeries because he says public hospitals are too back-logged to perform them. Why are we back-logged? Because he isn’t hiring enough nurses to staff our hospitals. Get it?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That discrepancy raises questions about the government’s imminent plans to expand the volume and scope of surgeries performed outside of hospitals, including the potentially lucrative field of hip and knee replacements.
The documents show provincial agency Ontario Health contracted Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. at the following per-surgery funding rates in each of the three fiscal years starting from 2020-21:
A spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the province contracted DMSU as part of its efforts to catch up on backlogs of publicly funded surgeries stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clearpoint is wholly owned by the $1.5 billion private equity firm Kensington Capital Partners Ltd., which launched the chain through a $35 million purchase of clinics in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and B.C.
The higher per-surgery funding to Clearpoint’s clinic debunks the government’s claims about the benefits of outsourcing OHIP-covered procedures, says Andrew Longhurst, a health policy researcher at Simon Fraser University.
“Having this [funding] information tells us that the main rationale that the government has used to argue for greater for-profit delivery simply doesn’t pass the sniff test,” said Longhurst in an interview.
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