Opinion by David Moscrop: Going for-profit is the wrong way to fix Ontario’s health-care crisis
The government should also drop its appeal to restore Bill 124, which caps pay increases for public sector workers, including nurses, at 1 percent. It wasby the courts in November. “Bill 124 has got to go,” says Birgit Umaigba, a clinical nurse specialist who speaks and writes about nursing from the front lines. The bill, she says, is driving nurses into private facilities — or out of the profession.
Further, the province could improve its referral systems. Melanie Bechard, a pediatric emergency physician and chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, says a system of family doctors referring patients to a centralized pool of specialists “has been proven to significantly reduce wait times across Canada and the world.
Ontario’s health-care system needs reform. It does not need more financialization. Instead, the province ought to reinvest in public and not-for-profit care while expanding best practices. In that space, unlike with doctors and nurses, there is no shortage of ideas that work.
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