When your talking points about Premier Doug Ford are literally indistinguishable from your talking points about Kathleen Wynne, you have a credibility problem<\/p>\n
Chris Selley
\nFebruary 5, 2019
\n8:56 PM EST<\/p>\n
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\nIn recent days, Ontario\u2019s NDP opposition has unearthed evidence suggesting the Progressive Conservative government is contemplating a major shakeup of health-care delivery. Documents leaked by a since-fired civil servant suggest Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) will be abolished in favour of a \u201csuper agency.\u201d (It won\u2019t actually be called that.) It would create so-called \u201cMyCare\u201d or \u201cintegrated care delivery\u201d systems, which would \u201cprovide patients with seamless, co-ordinated care and a single team of providers for all their care needs.\u201d Various types of health-care providers could bid to manage those systems.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Christine Elliott insists these draft documents are simply that. Nothing, she says, is set in stone. If that\u2019s true, then stakeholders will have a chance to be heard on any number of potential problems: for example, that MyCare groups, unlike LHINs, would not be Crown agencies and thus would not be subject to the same oversight; and that high-performing agencies like Cancer Care Ontario might get swallowed whole in the name of unneeded efficiencies.<\/p>\n
All that being rather complex, however, the NDP and its core supporters seem determined to talk about only two things: the twin spectres of health-care privatization and \u201ctwo-tier health care.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoug Ford\u2019s calculating plan to cut, add bureaucracy and turn our health-care system into a cash show (sic) for private corporations is wrong, and I\u2019m not letting it happen without a fight,\u201d leader Andrea Horwath vowed in a press release last wee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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