Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Private Care Failing in Ontario

Private health care in Ontario has taken off with a resounding thud. First the Indo-Canadian community turned against the provinces first Public Private Partnership (P3) Hospital.
Fuelling people's fury are not only the deaths of two Punjabi men due to the hospital's alleged negligence in November and a wrong surgery on a Punjabi woman last month, but also service cuts, cost overruns and alleged government cover-ups.
Now the Ontario Health Coalition is calling on the provincial auditor for a probe of cost overruns and delays.
"The government's justification for its P3 privatization policy has been that going to the private sector brings hospitals on time and in budget. The evidence from the Brampton case shows that this hospital is (not) on time, it doubled in price and the bed totals are approximately half of the assessed needs of the community at this ... time," the coalition's director Natalie Mehra told a news conference yesterday."The government's justification for its P3 privatization policy has been that going to the private sector brings hospitals on time and in budget. The evidence from the Brampton case shows that this hospital is (not) on time, it doubled in price and the bed totals are approximately half of the assessed needs of the community at this ... time," the coalition's director Natalie Mehra told a news conference yesterday.
Amid all of this failure, a new study shows that Canadian health care is better and less expensive than private health care in the U.S.

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