Ontario Health Coalition Halton

20/02/2025

16/02/2025

The Ford government spent more than $1O3.5 million in public money on advertising in the last year. That’s the highest amount ever, reports Ontario’s Auditor General, and most of their ad campaigns were to promote themselves. Look at the actual record: a million Ontarians have lost their family doctors. Please consider public health care when you vote or we are going to lose it.
Find all the data and sources at www.StopForProfitHealthCare.ca

15/02/2025

The Ford govt is privatizing our public health care system. It is false to claim they are not. Please, consider public health care when you vote or we are going to lose it.
They have tried to downplay the extent to which they are privatizing, using code words like “alternative”, “independent” or “community” health care facilities instead of referring to them as private for-profit facilities, angrily denouncing claims that they are privatizing, and even outright denying it.
🔴 FACT 1:
In Jan 2023, the Ford govt announced their plan to reroute 14,000 cataract surgeries away from our public hospitals and move them to private
for-profit clinics.
Since then, they have announced expansions to their privatization plan to include MRIs/CT scans, gastrointestinal endoscopies, and orthopedic surgeries.
⚫ FACT 2:
The Ford govt is:
- Funding private hospitals twice as much per surgery
- Shunting funding increases of up to 300% to for-profit hospitals and clinics
- Doing nothing to stop for-profit staffing agencies from charging public hospitals up to three times more for staff.
In other words, they are taking public funding and staff from public hospitals to pay for procedures in private for-profit facilities.
🔴 FACT 3:
At the same time, the Ford govt imposed real dollar cuts on public hospitals right up until the final weeks of the 2023-24 budget year, pushing them into service closures and deficits.
⚫ FACT 4:
They are also doing nothing to stop for-profit clinics from privatizing who pays for care, allowing the clinics to extra-bill patients on top of OHIP and charge direct user fees to patients which is unlawful.
Get the full myth buster here: https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/myth-buster-10-big-myths-about-health-care-privatization/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIcmxNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRHYOUxn2UB3wlYCBTMgheoHsNdYq4lVBF1renkJMGDbcVTem3_4XhQysA_aem_0U8BYEJ8TTldta6mNwSZdw

07/11/2024

Happening this evening! A free viewing of the short documentary A Human Picture, about ON’s short-lived but transformational Basic Income Pilot. The session will also include presentations and discussions with local experts about this important topic. https://calendar.wpl.ca/event/11998737

07/11/2024

Join us on Friday at Milton District Hospital (9-10 a.m.) & Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) as we fight to save public healthcare and stop the privatization of our hospitals

19/10/2024

Doug Ford’s ODSP and OW rates are social murder. Doug, it is time to raise the rates.
Sign the Raise the Rates petition: https://raisetherates.ca/

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17/10/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington.

The Trojan horse will be back in Halton on November 8 at Milton District Hospital (9-10 am) and Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (11:30am-1pm).

Together we can save public healthcare and stop the privatization of our hospitals

09/10/2024

Join us on Friday at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington as we fight to save public healthcare and stop the privatization of our hospitals

08/06/2024

Are you frustrated that decisions about your local hospitals have been removed from the local communities that have funded and relied upon them for generations?

You deserve the opportunity to share your concerns and influence decisions that will impact your health care.

Join us in person or online at one of these locations:

Welland - Saturday June 8 (9:30-11:30 a.m.)
St. Marys - Saturday June 8 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Bracebridge - Tuesday, June 11 (9-11 a.m.)
Barrie - Tuesday, June 11 (1:30-3:30 p.m.)
Mindemoya - Wednesday, June 12 (10-11:30 a.m.)
Blind River - Wednesday, June 12 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Almonte - Thursday June 13 (12-2 p.m.)
Perth - Thursday June 13 (3:45-5:15 p.m.)
Campbellford - Friday, June 14 (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Haliburton - Friday June 14 (4-6 p.m.)
Thunder Bay - Monday, June 17 (12:30-2 p.m.)
Chesley - Tuesday, June 18 (10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Wingham - June 18 (2-3 p.m.)
Mount Forest - Tuesday, June 18 (4:30-5:30 p.m.)

Everyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to make a written or spoken statement about your experiences and concerns to the expert, non-partisan panel, sign up today at https://bit.ly/ohc-june2024

06/06/2024

Ontario Health Coalition is holding public hearings across Ontario to develop recommendations for the future of our local hospitals, including small, rural and northern community hospitals.

These hearings are a chance for people in rural and northern Ontario to share their experiences and to safeguard and improve our local hospitals, especially those at risk of closures. We want to hear what has been cut, what if anything has improved, and what is needed to improve equity, save our hospitals and improve health care for rural Ontario.

Join us in person or online at one of these locations:

Welland - Saturday June 8 (9:30-11:30 a.m.)
St. Marys - Saturday June 8 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Bracebridge - Tuesday, June 11 (9-11 a.m.)
Barrie - Tuesday, June 11 (1:30-3:30 p.m.)
Mindemoya - Wednesday, June 12 (10-11:30 a.m.)
Blind River - Wednesday, June 12 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Almonte - Thursday June 13 (12-2 p.m.)
Perth - Thursday June 13 (3:45-5:15 p.m.)
Campbellford - Friday, June 14 (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Haliburton - Friday June 14 (4-6 p.m.)
Thunder Bay - Monday, June 17 (12:30-2 p.m.)
Chesley - Tuesday, June 18 (10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Wingham - June 18 (2-3 p.m.)
Mount Forest - Tuesday, June 18 (4:30-5:30 p.m.)

Everyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to make a written or spoken statement about your experiences and concerns to the expert, non-partisan panel, sign up today at https://bit.ly/ohc-june2024.

05/06/2024

05/06/2024

In response to more than 1,200 closures of emergency departments and other local hospital services over the last year, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is holding public hearings across Ontario to develop recommendations for the future of our local hospitals, including small, rural and northern community hospitals.

This is your opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences! Join us in person or online at one of these locations:

Welland - Saturday June 8 (9:30-11:30 a.m.)
St. Marys - Saturday June 8 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Bracebridge - Tuesday, June 11 (9-11 a.m.)
Barrie - Tuesday, June 11 (1:30-3:30 p.m.)
Mindemoya - Wednesday, June 12 (10-11:30 a.m.)
Blind River - Wednesday, June 12 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Almonte - Thursday June 13 (12-2 p.m.)
Perth - Thursday June 13 (3:45-5:15 p.m.)
Campbellford - Friday, June 14 (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Haliburton - Friday June 14 (4-6 p.m.)
Thunder Bay - Monday, June 17 (12:30-2 p.m.)
Chesley - Tuesday, June 18 (10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Wingham - June 18 (2-3 p.m.)
Mount Forest - Tuesday, June 18 (4:30-5:30 p.m.)

Everyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to make a written or spoken statement about your experiences and concerns to the expert, non-partisan panel, sign up today at https://bit.ly/ohc-june2024.