{"id":32237,"date":"2026-02-28T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=32237"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:41:46","slug":"new-report-sounds-alarm-that-ontario-taxpayers-money-is-being-diverted-from-public-hospitals-to-private-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/new-report-sounds-alarm-that-ontario-taxpayers-money-is-being-diverted-from-public-hospitals-to-private-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New report sounds alarm that Ontario taxpayers\u2019 money is being diverted from public hospitals to private health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(February 23, 2024) By: MP Holmes, CKMS-FM 201.7 Radio Waterloo<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public hospitals in Ontario have been starved of billions of dollars under the Ford government while private health clinics have received a windfall of taxpayers\u2019 funds, according to a new report by the <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Ontario Health Coalition<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-report-robbing-the-public-to-build-the-private-the-ford-governments-hospital-privatization-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u201cRobbing the Public to Build Private: the Ford Government\u2019s Hospital Privatization Scheme\u201d<\/span><\/a> was released by the Waterloo Region Health Coalition, in part with the larger Ontario Health Coalition, at the Waterloo Public Library on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the OHC report, over the last few years, private clinics in Ontario received a 212 per cent increase in funding in one year, rising from approximately $38 million in 2022-23 to over $120 million in 2023-24. 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In Kitchener alone, this underfunding has manifested in 140 vacant RN positions due to lack of funding.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowaterloo.ca\/new-report-sounds-alarm-that-taxpayers-money-is-being-diverted-from-public-hospitals-to-private-health-care-in-ontario\/\">Click here for the original article and recording<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 23, 2024) By: MP Holmes, CKMS-FM 201.7 Radio Waterloo Public hospitals in Ontario have been starved of billions of dollars under the Ford government while private health clinics have received a windfall of taxpayers\u2019 funds, according to a new report by the Ontario Health Coalition. \u201cRobbing the Public to Build Private: the Ford Government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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