{"id":4215,"date":"2016-01-19T16:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:04:56","slug":"healthcare-issues-inform-provincial-pre-budget-session-in-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/healthcare-issues-inform-provincial-pre-budget-session-in-windsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare issues inform provincial pre-budget session in Windsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(January 19, 2016)<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Members of the provincial legislature, in Windsor Tuesday for pre-budget consultations, were greeted by protesters calling primarily for increased healthcare funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Natlie Mehra, executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Ontario Health Coalition<\/span><\/a>, said members of her organization have appeared at these consultations for nine years, but the Liberal government hasn\u2019t listened to demands to improve healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to mobilize in a much bigger way, a much more assertive way to make sure that you hear this does not reflect the values and priorities of the vast majority of people in Ontario,\u201d said Mehra outside Caesars Windsor in below freezing temperatures. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to see these services cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Local speakers included Windsor &amp; District Labour Council president Brian Hogan, Essex County Health Coalition chair Kim DeYong and Pathway to Potential director Adam Vasey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Progressive Conservative finance critic Vic Fedeli, NDP finance critic Catherine Fife and NDP Essex MPP Taras Natyshak also joined the crowd during the rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re paying the price for the province\u2019s fiscal mismanagement and certainly from what we\u2019re hearing today, members of this community aren\u2019t going to stand for it,\u201d said Natyshak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Chris Buckley, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, which is organizing these protests at every consultation stop in Ontario, said the \u201causterity measures\u201d of the Liberal government go further than healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had enough of no investment in this province to create good-paying jobs,\u201d said Buckley. \u201cWe have rising student debt. We have inequality across the province. We have people that are forced to work in low-wage, precarious work jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Inside Caesars Windsor, parliamentary assistant to the minister of finance Laura Albanese said her government respects the way the protesters brought the message forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">\u201cI think we are just as concerned as the protesters outside in making sure that we provide the healthcare that Ontarians need,\u201d said the Liberal MPP for York South\u2014Weston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj made a presentation to the consultation panel about the concerns he has about the Health Based Allocation Model of hospital funding, which accounts for 40 per cent of all hospital funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Last week <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwindsor.ca\/news-story\/6229362-blame-provincial-funding-model-for-staff-reduction-at-hospital-says-wrh-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musyj said this was the reason the hospital has a $20 million shortfall<\/a><\/span> and will have a net loss of 86 full-time jobs this year. During the consultation, he said HBAM really only helps hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area because they earn more due to higher growth projections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Albanese, while not a part of the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, said that model will likely be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">\u201cMy expertise is not in health, but it\u2019s a formula that the government applies to all of the province,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m sure that will be evaluated and looked at. We\u2019ll have to wait for (health) minister (Eric) Hoskins to comment on it, but certainly it\u2019s taken in great account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Natyshak, who was part of the Windsor pre-budget panel, said healthcare issues dominated the morning consultations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">The consultations collected Tuesday will be summarized and included in a report which will inform the preparation of the 2016 Ontario budget, said Albanese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Other ways for Ontarians to participate in these consultations are included on the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/pre-budget-consultations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">provincial government\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwindsor.ca\/news-story\/6239423-healthcare-issues-inform-provincial-pre-budget-session-in-windsor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(January 19, 2016) Members of the provincial legislature, in Windsor Tuesday for pre-budget consultations, were greeted by protesters calling primarily for increased healthcare funding. 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