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(August 6, 2025) By: Jeff Gray, The Globe and Mail (behind a paywall)<\/p>\n

The Ontario<\/a> <\/span>government, poised to allow private clinics to do publicly funded hip- and knee-replacement surgeries, is facing behind-the-scenes criticism from some of the people who hope to build the new facilities.<\/p>\n

The long-delayed move is part of the Progressive Conservative government\u2019s push to boost the involvement of the private sector in the public health care<\/a> system, in an effort to move more procedures out of hospitals and reduce waiting times.<\/p>\n

But in interviews with The Globe and Mail, sources with two prospective private-sector applicants for licences to open new clinics say the terms unveiled in July are inadequate. They say the per-procedure payments that their clinics would receive will not provide a return for the financial backers that is required to build expensive new clinics from scratch.<\/p>\n

…….<\/p>\n

Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, an anti-private-care group backed by health-worker unions, dismissed the complaints about the cost structure from the prospective private clinics. She accused them of merely angling for more profits before they even open.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the lobbying commences,\u201d Ms. Mehra said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Data her group released in 2023 showed that many public hospitals across the province had underused operating rooms, owing to a lack of funding for staff. More procedures could be done in these existing, already-paid-for ORs, she argues.<\/p>\n

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