{"id":28559,"date":"2023-05-05T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=28559"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:00:03","slug":"public-healthcare-advocates-booted-from-mpps-office-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/public-healthcare-advocates-booted-from-mpps-office-entrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Public healthcare advocates booted from MPP\u2019s office entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">(May 4th, 2023)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By: Sean Irvine, CTV News London<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Members of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) were asked to leave an area near the entrance of Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Rob Flack&#8217;s office on Thursday. They were a few minutes away from starting a news conference to gauge public opinions on for-profit healthcare. London Health Coalition Co-Chair Peter Bergmanis said it is the first time his group has been asked to leave the outside of a MPPs office. It asks, \u201cDo you want our public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals?\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dubbed a vote and referendum by the OHC, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/publichospitalvote.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/publichospitalvote.ca\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684936998393000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3N1WvY9YoXZKhGPQ3e_j28\">the survey will be conducted online<\/a><\/span> and in person at multiple events listed on the same website. The OHC is an advocacy group with members working to ensure the future of public healthcare. <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-tables-health-care-bill-to-expand-role-of-private-clinics-1.6282893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-tables-health-care-bill-to-expand-role-of-private-clinics-1.6282893&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1684936998393000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1eZTir-uIe3sAdFBmlicwp\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">They are concerned about Bill 60<\/span><\/a>, which would permit more private clinics to open. The clinics would conduct surgeries paid for by OHIP.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bergmanis said any money to support new clinics should be put into public hospitals. \u201cThey have no business privatizing our public healthcare system by funneling public dollars out of our public hospitals, which have so many idle ORs, right now as we speak, into for-profit clinics, which will only benefit private investors,\u201d he said. London Health Coalition Co-Chair Jeff Hanks shared his opinion that private clinics are a slippery slope towards U.S.-style for-profit healthcare. \u201cIn the [United] States, people go bankrupt when they get sick. They don\u2019t want to go to the hospital cause they don\u2019t want to bankrupt the family,\u201d he explained. Bergmanis did not directly answer what would be done with the poll results.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, CTV News London reached out to Deb Ransom, the executive assistant to MPP Flack. She stated her office staff noted members of the Health Coalition outside before the 11 a.m. news conference, but did not instruct anyone to ask them to leave. She said other protests at the site have been permitted in the past.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/london.ctvnews.ca\/public-healthcare-advocates-booted-from-mpp-s-office-entrance-1.6384307\">Click here for original article\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 4th, 2023) By: Sean Irvine, CTV News London Members of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) were asked to leave an area near the entrance of Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP Rob Flack&#8217;s office on Thursday. They were a few minutes away from starting a news conference to gauge public opinions on for-profit healthcare. 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