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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.
The campaign responds to the government’s passage earlier this month of Bill 60 — also known as the Your Health Act — which expands the already substantial role of the private sector in Ontario’s health care system. The Ford government has dismissed those warnings as hyperbole, saying it will enforce guardrails to ensure patients at private clinics do not have to pay out of pocket, and emphasizing the potential benefits in reduced wait times.
“It was important for me to get involved because I’ve been a nurse for the last eight years, and before that a PSW working in privatized long-term care, so I saw a lot of the consequences of that,” she said. Federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos, in Thunder Bay to announce unrelated funding on Wednesday, said his government is watching provincial moves to expand private care closely.
“During the election, of course, there was no mention at all of privatizing health care, because they didn’t want to present that, so they have no mandate to privatize our hospital services,” he said. The referendum campaign asks those who vote, “Do you want our public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and clinics?”
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