Opinion: Allowing more private health care won’t solve this underfunding. It will simply mean more health services are carried out by profit-seeking entities that will pocket a share of the public money.
Fighting over health care privatization is a familiar Canadian sport, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s current privatization push feels different.
Another possibility is that our public health care system is struggling because the Ford government is starving it of funds, and the way to fix it is for Ford to inject those funds.on health care than any other province. Please explain why, Premier.of what the other provinces have spent on health care per capita over the past five years, we’d be spending an additional $7.
Ontario is in relatively good financial shape and could easily invest more in health care, says Sheila Block, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Presumably we can expect a softer, gentler version of the profit motive in the health care field — right?It turns out Ontario has carried out what amounts to a real-life experiment on the impact of the profit motive in health care — in the case of, where private equity and other innovative forms of cutthroat capitalism have had free rein.
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