"Doug Ford became premier on a promise to end hallway health care. Seven years later, ERs are more crowded than ever and the system has never been in greater disarray."
"I don’t have a family doctor..." 4 years earlier, she’d been notified that hers had switched clinics... she could be kept on the roster at the new clinic... she’d have to pay $4,245 a year to do so—her doctor was now working for a so-called 'executive health clinic'."
"No one has forgotten that, rather than doing everything it possibly could to recruit more medical staff, Ford illegally capped their wages with Bill 124... restrained wages, overwork, dangerous nurse-to-patient ratios, and poor morale... bled Ontario of the very health workers it needed..."
"Not everyone is convinced that fixing health care is a priority for this government. Allowing the public system to deteriorate might break public trust in it just enough that more privatization becomes palatable."
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