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Ah yes, Ford, who's more interested in getting beer into our bellies and land into the hands of his developer friends, than taking care of his constituents.

Friends don't let friends vote Tory.

Drug Fraud, the stealer of healthcare and thief of millions from healthcare transfer funds.

So, what to do now? Maybe stop electing asshole premiers who won't sign onto an agreement that locks healthcare transfers to be only spent on heathcare, education transfers to be spent on only education, etc etc. (which, btw, every premier declined to sign when Trudeau gave them extra billions ... because they're all fucking power-hungry assholes).

Elections have consequences.

Nationalize healthcare, take it out of the control of the provinces, have its funding hard-set to population metrics and then insulate it completely from political meddling. Ensure that all upper-level execs in this crown corp have never nor will never be involved with a related free-market corp, in order to prevent corruption and service degradation in favour of Parasite-Class profit margins.

Set up turnkey operations for GPs such that new doctors are incentivized to service communities at the grassroots level without driving themselves into poverty. Set up national unions for all healthcare workers that ensure wages remain appropriate for each region’s CoL. Set up a watchdog that ensures hospitals and other institutions are being run decently well in relation to the funding they receive, with the ability to seize underperformers (as in, shareholders lose everything) in order to bring them back up to minimum thresholds of service.

Finally, make the government the only possible payer for any healthcare service for anything, from vision and dental to physio and anything science-based (too bad chiropracty, we don’t need your snake oil). As in, make it illegal for anyone to be charged anything out of pocket, including drugs. Use economies of scale to minimize costs to the taxpayer.

That’s how you resolve the current conditions: you utterly eviscerate the profit motive when dealing with healthcare.

The shutting down and dismantling is the point. If the public health care system fails, private health care is more palatable, poor people die (and with the affordability crisis ongoing, most people are closer to this bucket) or stay sick and rich people get richer.

Don't worry, Ontario voters are still overwhelmingly supporting the pcpo, I'm sure things will get better.

Thanks Doug Ford.

In QC also people are dying, forgotten, in ER...