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By Åke Blomqvist
Following passage of the Ford government’s Bill 60, Ontario’s ministry of health now has the option to contract out to independent clinics the provision of certain kinds of health-care services normally provided in hospitals. Its opponents have cast the bill as favoring “privatization” and as a threat to the Canadian model of public health care. An emotionally charged television commercial commissioned by the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union (OPSEU) conjures up a dystopian future where stone-faced capitalists in dark suits push a gurney with a teary-eyed post-surgery patient through dim hospital corridors and…
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Ford government to open clinic at site of shuttered Minden ER
After weeks of pressure over the recent closure of a hospital emergency department in Minden with the busy summer cottage season approaching, the Ontario government says it will fund an urgent care clinic on the premises — but without doctors.
The plan is to have the clinic open on weekends starting June 30, and staffed by nurse practitioners and nurses, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said in a statement Tuesday.
Emergency cases will still have to make the 25-minute trip to the nearest hospital emergency room in Haliburton, which local residents have warned could result in life-threatening delays in care.
“We…
Comparing health care costs at Utah hospitals, the patient rights group finds transparency problems
We just got out of our open enrollment period at The Tribune, and I wasn’t especially happy with what I saw this year.
To The Tribune’s credit, our health insurance plan premiums didn’t rise. But everything else was bad news. You see, the deductible rose significantly — by 66% year-over-year. And just as bad, the amount of each procedure our insurance would pay for dropped by 10 percentage points, nearly across the board. Not great, Bob.
I tell you this is not to try to garner sympathy, but out of empathy for you all. It turned out most Americans, like…
ER physicians encourage Albertans to choose a party that will prioritize health care
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The South Health Campus adult acute care hospital in Calgary on April 1, 2020. An open letter signed by nearly 200 ER doctors said Alberta’s health care system was deteriorating.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
Nearly 200 emergency-room doctors are urging Albertans to vote for a party that will prioritize fixing what they say is a deteriorating health care system causing patients and care providers to speak languish without support.
An open letter released Wednesday morning, just five days ahead of the May 29 vote, said lack of access to primary care, limited hospital capacity and a…
‘People’s referendum’ puts spotlight on health care privatization
Organizers in Thunder Bay are urging residents to participate in a ‘people’s referendum’ they hope will demonstrate widespread opposition to the Ford government’s moves to deliver more health services through private clinics.
THUNDER BAY — Advocates are urging Thunder Bay residents to have their say in a ‘people’s referendum’ campaign looking to build opposition to the Ford government’s moves to expand the role of for-profit clinics in Ontario’s health system.
Organizers with the Ontario Health Coalition are soliciting votes in-person and online on Friday and Saturday in Thunder Bay and across the province.
The ‘referendum’ is not officially sanctioned and…
Hospitals Need to Focus on Social Drivers of American Health
Apepperan health care is broken. And American health care systems must transform radically to lead the repair.
Let’s first look at the data: The US now spends more than $4 trillion a year on health care. That’s nearly 20% of gross domestic product. Yet US life expectancy lags literally dozens of other nations—including Portugal, Slovenia, and Turkey—by as much as seven years. If trends continue, we will drop to 64th in the world in life expectancy by 2040, though we will continue to spend significantly more per capita than nearly any other nation.
Diagnosing this failure is not difficult. Nearly…
PEI will need about 1,200 more healthy workers by 2032: forecast
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A report on Prince Edward Island’s ailing health-care system says the province needs about 1,200 additional workers over the next 10 years.
The report by Halifax-based health-care consulting firm Health Intelligence says the province will need 1,194 more workers across all health disciplines by 2032.
Health Intelligence says its forecast is based on the province’s plan to reform the health-system by adding more nurses, doctors and pharmacists to the network.
It says the province would only need 245 more health workers over the same period should the government implement a less…