StarEditorial: Without the transparency needed to verify the intent and impact of Doug Ford’s for-profit health care plan, it is very difficult to muster the trust.
It was Stanford economist Paul Romer who first uttered the phrase “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste,” but it is Premier Doug Ford who has been acting on those words in recent days.
If you are caught in an unacceptable surgical backlog, the cheering is understandable. The status quo is unacceptable. But there is a bigger picture.to ease backlogs, beginning with cataract surgery, Ford has left a trail of unanswered questions. He also pointed to British Columbia, but there the NDP government is re-investing in the public system, buying private clinics, including two it deemed to be under-using surgical space. The government there also draws a hard line against any private clinics charging patients a fee. In Doug Ford’s private clinic plan, any fees or “upselling,” is called patient choice.
There are no provisions to have the clinics linked to hospitals providing continuum of care to include after care or deal with any complications that can stem from knee or hip surgery.to come to Ontario where he will recognize their credentials immediately and jobs are waiting. But nurses are leaving Ontario because they are underpaid and overburdened, paid less on average than anywhere in the country except Quebec.
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