{"id":28836,"date":"2025-03-12T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=28836"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:42:04","slug":"briefing-note-fact-sheets-health-care-privatization-fact-sheets-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/briefing-note-fact-sheets-health-care-privatization-fact-sheets-information\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">BRIEFING NOTE &#038; FACT SHEETS:<\/FONT> Health Care Privatization Fact Sheets &#038; Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(March 12, 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Below is a quick summary of the key issues. Here are some fact sheets and additional information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/leaflet-ontario-health-coalition-leaflet-petition-for-labour-day-events-and-market-tables\/\">Hospital privatization leaflet for fall 2025<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fact-sheet-myth-buster-re-bed-blockers.pdf\">Fact sheet &amp; myth buster on &#8220;bed blockers&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/fact-sheet-briefing-note-videos-what-is-public-medicare-and-how-did-canadians-achieve-it\/\">What is Public Medicare and how did Canadians achieve it?<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/OHC-cataract-surgery-fact-sheet.pdf\">Cataract surgery: What patients can and cannot be charged for<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Traditional-CN-OHC-cataract-surgery-fact-sheet-1.pdf\">Cataract surgery fact sheet (traditional Chinese)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simplified-CN-OHC-cataract-surgery-fact-sheet-1.pdf\">Cataract surgery fact sheet (simplified Chinese)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/quick-facts-analysis-fact-checker-ford-governments-health-care-funding\/\">Quick Facts &amp; Analysis + Fact Checker: Ford government&#8217;s health care funding<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/final-top-10-myth-buster.pdf\">10 big myths about health care privatization<\/a><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/240909-Traditional-CN-final-top-10-myth-buster.pdf\">10 big myths (traditional Chinese)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/240909-Simplified-CN-final-top-10-myth-buster.pdf\">10 big myths (simplified Chinese)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/a-closer-look-block-fees-and-boutique-medicine\/\">Briefing note on block fees and boutique medicine<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Updated-briefing-note-Fords-privatization-plan.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Updated briefing note on Ford government\u2019s plan to privatize our public hospital services<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fact-sheet-QA-For-profit-clinics-and-hospitals.pdf\">Questions and answers about for-profit clinics and hospitals<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fact-Sheet-Why-Not-Privatize.pdf\"><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Why not privatize our public health care services<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/investigations\/doctors-extra-billing-private-clinics-investigation\/article35260558\/\">Front page story in the Globe &amp; Mail from our report on private clinics across Canada<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/private-clinics-the-threat-to-public-medicare-in-canada-results-of-surveys-with-private-clinics-and-patients\/\">Our report on private clinics across Canada<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/LTC-Privatization-fact-sheet.pdf\">Why stop the privatization of long-term care<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/FINAL-home-care-privatization-fact-sheet-jean-nisperos.pdf\">Home care privatization<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Private-COVID-19-Testing-Briefing-Note-Final.pdf\">Privatization of COVID-19 testing in Ontario<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/health-system-facts-trends\/funding\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Fast Facts on Health Care Funding in Ontario<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/2023\/04\/06\/new-rules-to-shield-private-clinics-from-public-scrutiny.html\">Toronto Star column on Bill 60 &#8211; the Ford government&#8217;s new law to facilitate the privatization of our hospital surgeries<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-briefing-note-patients-who-have-been-extra-billed-thousands-of-dollars-in-ontario-private-clinics-join-advocates-to-call-out-ford-governments-false-claims\/\">Patients report being extra billed thousands of dollars in Ontario private clinics<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fact-sheet-why-privatizing-hospitals-is-bad-for-business.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Briefing note on why for-profit clinics &amp; hospitals are bad for business<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=chYhYUvPuxY\"> Making a Killing: Everything you wanted to know about privatization of public hospitals webinar<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n_NRzd2YN3U\"> Press Conference with real life report on what private clinics have done across Canada<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/become-a-public-medicare-defender\/\"><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Sign up to become a Public Medicare Defender and receive updates and information from us<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Why for-profit privatization is a terrible idea<\/h1>\n<h2>We don\u2019t need to privatize.<\/h2>\n<p>Operating rooms in our public hospitals are closed evenings, weekends &#8212; sometimes even permanently &#8212; due to underfunding.<br \/>\nIt is a choice by government not to fund &amp; open the under-used operating rooms we already have in our public hospitals.<br \/>\nEven a few extra hours per day over 3 months would clear the backlog of patients waiting.<\/p>\n<h2>For-profit hospitals &amp; clinics only take the fast, easy, profitable patients.<\/h2>\n<p>They also take their staff out of our local public hospitals.<br \/>\nThey leave the complicated surgeries, such as cancer care, and riskier patients (eg. those with diabetes, are overweight, have COPD\/heart arrhythmias etc.) to our public hospitals with less funding &amp; staff to provide care.<\/p>\n<h2>For-profit clinics &amp; hospitals routinely charge patients thousands of dollars on top of OHIP for needed surgeries &amp; tests.<\/h2>\n<p>This \u201cextra-billing\u201d is illegal under the Canada Health Act which requires care to be provided without charge based on medical need &#8212; not our wealth, &amp; which bans extra-billing. No government has been successful in controlling the for-profits.<br \/>\nIt would require a whole new system to monitor, inspect and police them.<br \/>\nFor-profit clinics also take profits by getting patients to pay for unneeded tests &amp; extras.<br \/>\nTheir prices are very high &#8212; often up to five times higher than OHIP costs.<br \/>\nFor-profit privatization is a fatal threat to our cherished system of Canadian public health care for all &amp; is more expensive.<\/p>\n<h2>Ontario funds our public hospitals at the lowest rate in Canada.<\/h2>\n<p>The Ford government has underspent the health care budget by $1.25 billion, even while patients are waiting,<br \/>\nour emergency departments &amp; other vital services are closing, and our nurses &amp; hospital staff are leaving by the thousands due to overwork, burnout &amp; frustration.<br \/>\nThis follows years of underfunding.<br \/>\nIf the Ontario government funded our health care even to the average of Canada, they could resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<h2>The Ford government\u2019s hospital privatization plan is a \u201ctake away\u201d from our local public hospitals.<\/h2>\n<p>It will be damaging to all public hospitals &amp; particularly devastating to medium &amp; smaller hospitals that lose surgeries, diagnostics, doctors, nurses &amp; health professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 12, 2025) Below is a quick summary of the key issues. Here are some fact sheets and additional information: Hospital privatization leaflet for fall 2025 Fact sheet &amp; myth buster on &#8220;bed blockers&#8221; What is Public Medicare and how did Canadians achieve it? 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