I wish I could've offered more answers in this story. What kind of calls are "low" vs "high priority"? How many people don't bother waiting? What were the outcomes? Alas, my NUMEROUS requests to the Health Ministry and Ontario Health went unanswered #ontpoli #onthealth
Back when it was Telehealth Ontario, callers could speak with a nurse within seconds or minutes. Now that the service has been replaced by Health811, the average wait time can be many hours #onthealth
“More than 60% of Ontario hospitals were in the red at the end of the 2025 fiscal year, and many have turned to banks to cover their costs, spending millions of public dollars on loan interest payments”
#OntHealth #PublicHealth
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#Ontario #OntHealth
Sad, but his assessment of the situation sounds fair. 😞
“This isn't a failure of frontline doctors and nurses — it's a failure of hospital throughput and system-level capacity.“
#OntHealth #ERWaitTimes
▶️Send tax dollars to private, for-profit clinics to build new surgical units that charge taxpayers 2X as much per surgery.
Patients are being sacrificed for profit.
#ONpoli #ONThealth
1/7 🇨🇦 ONTARIO DOCTORS EYE EXIT AS CRISIS LOOMS 🇨🇦
A new survey reveals a stunning reality: more than half of the province's physicians are planning or considering retirement within five years.
The system faces a "crumbling" foundation.
Kelly Grant reports.
#OntHealth #CdnHealth #OnPoli
I won’t be at all surprised if #Ontario too — Doug Ford loves private healthcare.
#PublicHealth #OntHealth
Today, 2.5 million Ontarians lack a family physician — and it’s on track to soar to 4.4 million by 2026.
Consequences can be dire: Treatable diseases go undetected, patients flood emergency rooms, and hospitals are overwhelmed by advanced cases. #OntHealth
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Ford's gravy train
Company that failed to deliver medication to elderly and palliative patients received $18 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.
When taxes and contracts are given to Conservative donors—patients are left in pain.
#ONpoli #OntHealth
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How does Ford feel about LifeLabs being owned by a foreign owner ?
He is preparing a presser on health system profits staying in Canada & elbows up?
#cdnhealth #onthealth
"Plan to connect everyone in Ontario to primary care"; Ontario government says.
#OntHealth #OntGov
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“Nobody should die while seeking care.”
#Healthcare #OntHealth
Private Equity & Premiers are organizing on healthcare.
If we value HC we need to continually organize to have a voice or risk loosing more supt.
#cdnhealth #bchealth #abhealth #saskhealth #mbhealth #onthealth #qbhealth #nbhealth #nshealth #peihealth #nfldhealth #yukonhealth #nunhealth #nwthealth
Ford funding private surgical clinics is corporate welfare. They charge taxpayers more and increase wait times
#ONpoli #OntHealth
Remember when Ford said we'd pay for healthcare with our OHIP card, not our credit card?
He lied. Extra billing for "uninsured services" is now policy.
#ONpoli #OntHealth
Ugh!!!
$125 million of taxpayer money that should be going to “making it happen” in PUBLIC HOSPITALS! 😡
#Ontario #OntHealth
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“When Healthcare Becomes Corporate, Patients Become Collateral.”
#OntHealth take note.
Exactly!
Why not give the same funds to #PublicHealth #PublicHospitals #OntHealth? 😠
Ontario's finding out what happens when you shortchange preventative healthcare, with the cost of lives and the virulent spread of measles. #onthealth #FordFailedOntario
Oh, Ontario… 😣 🤦🏻♀️
#OntHealth #FordFail
Ontario Public Health should always be PUBLIC.
#OntHealth
Public health care dollars must remain in the public system.
Every dollar of public money should not be reduced by shareholder dividends, private agency fees or the wage gouging by private agencies that undermine our health care system.
#ONpoli #Onthealth
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Unacceptable. 😡
#Healthcare is a human right - it should NEVER be for profit.
* Having said that, we should absolutely be compensating nurses as per their worth - a lot!
#OntHealth
Why are hospitals going broke?
➡️ $9.2 B tax dollars went to for-profit staffing agencies
➡️ these agencies provide 0.4% of staffing, but eat up 6% of hospital budgets
Will Ontario's Conservatives crack down?
#onpoli
#onthealth
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No doubt it is important for older age groups to talk with their family doctor (if they're lucky enough to have one) or seek medical advice from a doctor to see if they are in need for a MMR booster. #measles #onthealth #onpoli
Family #Healthcare
#OntHealth
