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(August 26, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n

By: Taylor Pace, Guelph Today<\/span><\/p>\n

After the provincial government hinted at increased health care privatization, Ontario residents and health care workers have been anxiously waiting to see what happens next.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Guelph, privatization has slowly been filtering in since the early ’90s, according to former chair of the Guelph Wellington chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition, Magee McGuire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the Ministry of Health has somehow forgotten the old health care system and its principles,” she said, adding The Canada Health Act has become a commodity, because so much has been privatized over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI can only speak to Guelph, but I know that over the years, if you were a patient in the hospital and you were discharged, they certainly didn\u2019t want to see you back in a week. They had help from a variety of clinics \u2013 heart clinics, diabetes clinics, the postpartum clinic for moms and babies, especially with breastfeeding help. There was a pain clinic. And they were all cut.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Privatization already exists within the healthcare system,\u00a0and that includes the type of care you receive at the previously publicly funded clinics, said McGuire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, according to\u00a0the Ontario Health Coalition, there is no common measurable unit to calculate what percentage is currently public or private.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I believe that the present government is either going to demand more money from the federal government, or they’re going to privatize more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week the government brought forward a long-term care bill\u00a0which would force hospital patients to move into the first LTC home that opens up\u00a0or be charged up to $1,500 each day for staying in the hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s unclear if that will be on top of\u00a0chronic care co-payments, which charge permanent residents of a hospital or other institution up to around $1,900 each month in user fees for services like food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s coercive,\u201d\u00a0said McGuire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you’re privatizing, you are dealing with doctors who are business-minded, away from the philosophy of the Canada Health Act. It’s what has always guided good, patient-focused healthcare in Canada, and they’re losing that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Act was enacted in 1984, after Justice Emmett Hall warned that extra-billing and user fees \u2013 like co-payment fees \u2013 would create a two-tiered system that threatened the universal accessibility of care.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if you privatize, it’s only the people who have money that are going to be able to afford the kind of health care they want,” said McGuire.\u00a0“And there’s going to be a huge deterioration in the health care of everybody else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While private elements have existed within the healthcare system for years, for instance, as hospitals employ laundry workers and food services, health care policy expert and University of Guelph professor Candace Johnson finds it concerning how close privatization is getting to \u201cthe core practice of medicine,\u201d with more reliance on <\/span>contracting private companies to bring in nurses.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe other way that a system can be privatized would be to get people to pay more out of pocket, either a user fee, increased premiums, or more of a private insurance type model, which would be a complete departure from the system that we have now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson said we need to maintain a single-payer system, where everybody gets equal care when they go to the hospital or the doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut likely what\u2019s going to be the case, is that more private elements are introduced into the system, the greater the potential for inequality.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As long as we keep that single-payer system, healthcare access will remain fair \u201cto the best degree possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough situation right now. Because of COVID-19, the system has been stretched so thin. But there is no evidence that increased privatization is going to help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe delivery of public health care needs to be distributed according to the principles of justice, distributed to people who are least able to pay, the most vulnerable, the sickest. The private sector isn\u2019t set up to do a good job delivering on that,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s no one side effect of privatization. There’s only divisiveness, and the strongest are going to win,\u201d McGuire said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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