Now that it’s clear Premier Doug Ford will rule over Ontario for another four years, we can begin to survey the damage he’s likely to do in some key areas — like health care. Private clinics won’t solve the health-care crisis. Opinion by LindaMcQuaig
Now that it’s clear Premier Doug Ford will rule over Ontario for another four years, we can begin to survey the damage he’s likely to do in some key areas — like health care.
Now, this doesn’t mean we’ll end up with a disastrous health-care system like the largely private one south of the border. It takes decades of careful planning and wilful treachery to devise a health-care system as wretched as the American one. It’s easy to sympathize with private clients wanting to get treated as fast as possible. But faster service for them meansThat’s because there are a limited number of medical professionals, and they all work within the same broad, publicly subsidized system.
Instead, private operators take full advantage of the public system, and then use their power within it to move their clients to the front of the line, ahead of sicker people who haven’t paid them a fee.
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