{"id":5350,"date":"2017-06-15T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:21:29","slug":"ontario-cant-bear-to-let-private-clinics-overcharge-health-coalition-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontario-cant-bear-to-let-private-clinics-overcharge-health-coalition-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario can&#8217;t &#8216;bear&#8217; to let private clinics overcharge, health coalition says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(June 9, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>By: Tom Morrison, OurWindsor.ca<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Ontario Health Coalition have brought a seven-foot stuffed bear to Windsor to raise their concerns about the use of private clinics in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The furry animal, which has travelled to other parts of the province, is meant to support their message: \u201cWe can\u2019t \u2018bear\u2019 to lose Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bear is a symbol of care and caring and it\u2019s a friendly little reminder that we can\u2019t bear to lose this system that we\u2019ve had for one third of Canada\u2019s history,\u201d said Peter Boyle, a volunteer with the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>There is court challenge in British Columbia in which a clinic is fighting to be able to charge clients for services. The outcome could affect the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_2829_onscreen\">\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_2829\" class=\" fsk_splitbox_2829\"><iframe id=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" name=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Boyle said most Canadians say the aspect of their country of which they are most proud is the public health care system, and it shouldn\u2019t be threatened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure that our provincial government in Ontario stops it and follows the law, makes these clinics follow the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer representing the clinic in B.C. has argued private clinics alleviate wait times in the public health care system. The two acute care campuses in Windsor were frequently over capacity during the recent winter months.<\/p>\n<p>Boyle said that is a \u201cfalse argument\u201d because a lot of private clinics are only immediately able to help people with the money to afford the services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you start creating two tiers of system, one for the rich and one for the rest of us, then that\u2019s going to take away from what we\u2019ve had for 50 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fighting against that. We can\u2019t have one for the rich and one for everyone else in Canada. That\u2019s what these private clinics lead to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Health Coalition will be releasing a report Monday about how private clinics have been overcharging patients for services. Ken Lewenza Jr., chair of the Windsor-Essex Health Coalition, said the patients may not even need some of these tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clinics are doing some of the really easy care services, leaving it to the hospitals that are doing the more acute,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re actually taking resources from the hospitals to do these easier things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewenza said more people need to become educated on the issue for it to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that we know is the only reason we have publicly-funded health care in Canada is because everyday, ordinary people fought for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re going to try to do is mobilize people in our community to, first of all, think about how better to protect themselves when they go into clinics so they\u2019re not being charged extra fees, but also how we can maintain those services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwindsor.ca\/news-story\/7363176-ontario-can-t-bear-to-let-private-clinics-overcharge-health-coalition-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(June 9, 2017) By: Tom Morrison, OurWindsor.ca Members of the Ontario Health Coalition have brought a seven-foot stuffed bear to Windsor to raise their concerns about the use of private clinics in the province. 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