Ford budget will leave health-care system billions short, data suggests
Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli presents the 2019 budget as Premier Doug Ford looks on at the legislature in Toronto on April 11, 2019.
TORONTO — Ontario needs to inject about $7 billion more into health care in the next three years just to maintain the services it currently provides, but the Ford government's budget will leave the system billions of dollars short. The province's financial watchdog projects that the government needs to spend at least $70.3 billion on health care by the 2021/22 fiscal year to keep up with inflation, the growing population and the aging baby boomer generation. But projections in the Progressive Conservatives' first budget,, show that they only intend to raise health-care spending to $65.3 billion in that time, leaving the system $5 billion short.
Health care is the largest expense for Ontario, taking up nearly 40 per cent of its roughly $163-billion budget.by merging Local Health Integration Networks into one centralized agency. That move will save $350 million a year when it's complete, according to the budget document.
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