PRIVATIZATION EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Privatization Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: September 29, 2020

This page is continually updated.

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Privatization:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of Bill 60, Your Health Act
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics
• REPORT: Public Money, Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns
• RELEASE: Private Clinics & the Threat to Public Medicare in Canada: Results of Surveys with Private Clinics and Patients

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• BRIEFING NOTE & FACT SHEETS: Health Care Privatization Fact Sheets & Information
• FACT SHEET: What cataract surgery patients can and cannot be charged for
• BRIEFING NOTE, ANALYSIS & SUBMISSION: Ford government’s new law (Bill 135) to further privatize home care
• BRIEFING NOTE: Health care funding briefing note: putting the fall economic statement in context
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Patients Who Have Been Extra-Billed Thousands of Dollars in Ontario Private Clinics Join Advocates to Call Out Ford Government’s False Claims
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals
• BRIEFING NOTE & QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: Municipal Election Key Health Care Issues
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario
• FACT SHEET: The Privatization of Ontario’s Public Hospital Services

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Revelations of Grifols’ non-compliance rate must result in end of contract: Ford government must comply with Voluntary Blood Donations Act & end for-profit/paid plasma
• RELEASE: Health Coalition demands disclosures & end to Grifols’ for-profit blood plasma contract following reports of deaths, harm, non-compliance
• RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Slam Ford Government for Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit
• RELEASE: Patients demand Ford government reimburse wrongful charges at Ford’s private clinics: more than 160 people join Day of Action at Ontario Legislature
• ADVISORY: Protests Against Ford Government’s Expanding Hospital Privatization Plans
• RELEASE: Health Coalition responds to shocking attack, calls on Health Minister to desist & instead answer for non-action on private clinics with the gravitas the issue deserves
• RELEASE: Patient Advocates File Formal Complaints from 50 Patients, Call for Urgent Action to Stop Illegal Fees in Private Clinics
• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme