MEDIA RELEASE: The Ford government is starving local public hospitals to privatize them, charge health advocates
The public has funded local hospitals for more than 70 years to build operating room capacity that is unused while the Ford government is shunting unprecedented public money to private for-profit clinics and hospitals to build new operating rooms, the Coalition reports.
- The public has funded local hospitals for more than 70 years to build operating room capacity that is unused while the Ford government is shunting unprecedented public money to private for-profit clinics and hospitals to build new operating rooms, the Coalition reports.
- For the last year, the Coalition researched the unused capacity in local public hospitals through Freedom of Information requests and interviews with surgical staff.
- Funded private for-profit hospitals at double the rate per surgery than it funds public hospitals.
- “A few for-profit corporations are being enriched by the Ford government’s privatization scheme while our public hospitals and patients pay the price.