GOLDSTEIN: Our healthcare is broken — fear-mongering won’t fix it Via sunlorrie
Critics immediately invoked the spectre of “U.S.-style, two-tier healthcare,” whereupon Premier Doug Ford responded: “There’s one thing we’ll guarantee: You’ll always be covered by OHIP, not the credit card.”
What Ford and Jones were talking about is expanding the existing role of private healthcare providers in Ontario in delivering medical services that are 100% paid for by the government — for example lab tests — on the grounds this may save taxpayers’ money.Article content The problem is we don’t have timely access to medical care and a lot of it isn’t paid for by government.
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