The (Ontario Health) coalition, which advocates for improvements to the public health care system, is documenting experiences like Zammit’s at hearings around rural Ontario this month. With input from opposition critics, the network of over 400 grassroot organizations wants to draft recommendations on how to improve local hospitals, especially in rural areas.
Executive director Natalie Mehra said it will follow their report last year, which recorded almost 1,200 emergency room closures in the province.
“The goal is to push the Ford government and stop them from continuing to shut down and dismantle public health services and sort of destroy them through privatization,” said Mehra.
The province is budgeted to spend $85 billion on health care this year, she noted.
Zammit said she didn’t see that funding reflected on the ground.
The problem is that this country is fucking brain-dead and tries to elect conservatives federally every chance they can. Shit, there’s an actual chance somebody as against the general public as Poilivere could be elected. There are actually working class folk out there absolutely excited to fuck themselves and everybody else over by electing him in. Every point they make against Trudeau will very possibly continue or be worse under PP yet they’re out there with raging truck boners hopping to vote him in.
And that has the potential to fuck the entire country over for healthcare instead of just a few lobotomized provinces.
Be careful what you wish for.