PRIVATIZATION EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Privatization Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: September 29, 2020

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Privatization:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics (April 16, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics (March 8, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (February 21, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (February 15, 2024)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (November 2, 2023)
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of Bill 60, Your Health Act (March 10, 2023)
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• REPORT: Public Money, Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care (November 29, 2021)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• RELEASE: Private Clinics & the Threat to Public Medicare in Canada: Results of Surveys with Private Clinics and Patients (June 10, 2017)
• ANALYSIS: Chamber of Commerce Privatization Report Poorly Researched, Not in Public Interest: Health Coalition (March 15, 2016)
• REPORT: Private Health Clinics Using Manipulative Tactics to Over-Bill Patients: Ontario Health Coalition Report (July 17, 2014)
• SUBMISSION: OHC Provincial Budget Submission (July 17, 2014)
• SUBMISSION: Submission on the proposed new regulation under the Independent Health Facilities Act (IHFA), 1990 and the proposed amendment to regulation 264/07 under the Local Health System Integration Act (LHSIA) 2006 (October 10, 2013)
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Conservative Party Health Paper A Recipe for Privatization (September 10, 2012)
• RELEASE: Schedule 28 Update: Weak amendments to McGuinty omnibus budget bill facilitate sweeping privatization – Citizens’ groups call for privatization clause to be struck down (June 15, 2012)
• REPORT: Private Clinics Report: Eroding Public Medicare: Lessons and Consequences of For-Profit Health Care Across Canada (October 6, 2008)
• REPORT: Private Clinics Report: First Do No Harm (October 1, 2007)
• MEDICARE WORKS! Town Hall Reports (September 23, 2006)
• LEGAL OPINION: Legal Opinion on Proposed Copeman Clinic (January 19, 2006)
• REPORT: Scanning For Profit: A Critical Review of the Evidence Regarding For-Profit MRI and CT Clinics (September 1, 2002)
• REPORT: McMaster Study Shows Mortality Rates Higher in For-Profit Hospitals (July 15, 2002)
• REPORT: Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario’s Long Term Care Facilities (May 27, 2002)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• FACT SHEET: What cataract surgery patients can and cannot be charged for (November 14, 2024)
• BRIEFING NOTE & FACT SHEETS: Health Care Privatization Fact Sheets & Information (August 28, 2024)
• BRIEFING NOTE, ANALYSIS & SUBMISSION: Ford government’s new law (Bill 135) to further privatize home care (November 11, 2023)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Health care funding briefing note: putting the fall economic statement in context (November 2, 2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Patients Who Have Been Extra-Billed Thousands of Dollars in Ontario Private Clinics Join Advocates to Call Out Ford Government’s False Claims (February 27, 2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (October 26, 2022)
• BRIEFING NOTE & QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: Municipal Election Key Health Care Issues (September 27, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals (August 19, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario (March 30, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: The Privatization of Ontario’s Public Hospital Services (March 8, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Why Stop the Privatization of Long-Term Care (March 8, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Home Care Privatization (March 8, 2022)
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (March 3, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Health Coalition Demands that Ford Government Stop Privatizing Health Care Under Cover of COVID-19: “There is no excuse not to use reopen & ramp up existing capacity in public system”, Coalition will do everything in its power to stop the undermining of public health care (September 24, 2020)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (November 20, 2019)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (August 3, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Briefing Note on Ontario Cabinet Shuffle: Deep Concerns about Ideological Positions of New Minister of Long-Term Care & Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addictions (June 21, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: List of local hospital and health services cuts/mergers/privatization (May 30, 2019)
• URGENT UPDATE: Undeniable signals Doug Ford intends major health care privatization (April 18, 2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• URGENT UPDATE: FORD GOV’T SWEEPING HEALTH CARE RESTRUCTURING BILL (March 27, 2019)
• CALL-OUT: November 21 Giant Rally at Queen’s Park to STOP the private clinics (October 24, 2014)
• BRIEFING NOTE: New Legal Regulations Planned by Ontario’s Liberal Government to Cut Community Hospital Services and Expand Private Clinics (October 8, 2013)
• FACT SHEET: Comparison of Public Hospitals Act to Independent Health Facilities Act (August 8, 2013)
• REPORT: The Austerity Index Part I: Health Care cuts and deficits across Ontario (December 5, 2012)
• BACKGROUNDER: The Drummond Commission: A Cover for Cuts and Privatization (January 23, 2012)
• BACKGROUNDER: B.C. Private Clinics Challenge to Single-Tier Health Care (January 1, 2011)
• BACKGROUNDER: Canadian Constitution Foundation Challenge Against Single-Tier Medicare (May 31, 2007)
• BACKGROUNDER: Ontario Health Coalition Backgrounder on Private Clinics (March 22, 2007)
• OHC: URGENT ALERT (March 22, 2007)
• Save Public Medicare! Information (March 20, 2007)
• Billions in Public Taxes Risked by P3 Hospital Privatization: 100 Failed, Flawed and Abandoned Projects Used to Warn Politicians (April 7, 2005)
• RELEASE/BACKGROUNDER: “Payments for care at private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis” (June 6, 2004)
• BRIEFING NOTE: For-Profit MRI/CT Clinics (April 22, 2003)
• FACT SHEET: Funny Numbers – Ontario Health Coalition Brief on Ministry of Health Publicity re. For-Profit MRI/CT Clinics (March 1, 2003)
• FACT SHEET: Women and Medicare: Privatization of Medicare and Women (February 1, 2003)
• BACKGROUNDER: “The Pulse” OHC Newsletter – Private MRI and CT Clinics (September 3, 2002)
• FACT SHEET: Public Private Partnerships of Profit Over patients? The Facts About For-Profit Hospitals (September 2, 2002)
• FACT SHEET: Medicare’s Critics: Back to the “Good Old Days”? (January 11, 2002)
• FACT SHEET: Privatization Fact Sheet: Why NOT Privatize (May 11, 2001)
• FACT SHEET: Health Care Spending: The Facts (May 1, 2001)
• FACT SHEET: Health Facts: Privatization (May 11, 1999)

Media Releases

• RELEASE & REPORT: Illegal, Unlawful and Unethical: Case Studies of Patients Charged for Medical Care in Ontario’s Private Clinics (April 16, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Fraud, criminal conviction, misrepresentation and unlawful user fees: New report exposes a “Wild West” of for-profit health care in Ottawa private clinics (March 8, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (February 21, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (February 15, 2024)
• RELEASE: Ford Government Expanded For-Profit Hospital in Violation of the Law and While Lying to the Public: Health Coalition and Democracy Watch Call for Concrete Measures to Protect the Public Interest in Wake of Revelations about Former Health Minister Lobbying for For-Profit Hospital (November 20, 2023)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (November 2, 2023)
• RELEASE: More than 400,000 Ontarians vote to stop the privatization of Ontario’s public hospitals: Health Coalition announces results of Huge People’s Referendum (May 31, 2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Patients Who Have Been Extra-Billed Thousands of Dollars in Ontario Private Clinics Join Advocates to Call Out Ford Government’s False Claims (February 27, 2023)
• RELEASE: Calling Ford’s plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital surgeries a “fatal threat” and a “terrible blow” to our public hospitals, health advocates vow major fightback (January 16, 2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (October 26, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions denounce for-profit deal by Canadian Blood Services that endangers Canada’s Blood Supply (September 20, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals (August 19, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election Health Care Primer: Health Coalition Brings Warning and Outlines Key Issues as the Writ Drops (May 5, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Privatization of COVID-19 Testing in Ontario (March 30, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ford Government is Awarding Thousands of Long-Term Care Beds to For-Profit Chains with Ghastly Records of Death and Suffering: New Coalition Report (November 29, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions Call for Increased Federal Health Care Funding and Accountability (December 10, 2020)
• RELEASE: Throne Speech: Premiers Should Not Play Partisan Politics with Health Care; Concrete Commitments Needed From Provincial & Federal Governments (September 29, 2020)
• RELEASE: Victory for Patients Over Private Clinics in B.C. Court Challenge: Historic Victory Against Profit-Driven Health Care (September 10, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ford’s ambulance and public health cuts and restructuring come with high costs, reduced services: Coalition warns (April 18, 2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization (March 27, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford Government is Steamrolling Health Restructuring Law Through in “Outrageously Undemocratic” Process Warns Health Coalition: Local Services at Risk (March 18, 2019)
• RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (February 11, 2019)
• RELEASE: Leaked Draft Health Care Legislation a “Gargantuan Nightmare Scenario”: Community and Labour Groups Join Forces for Major Fightback (February 1, 2019)
• RELEASE: Thousands Demand Doug Ford Disavow Health Care Privatization and Cuts – Other Political Parties Respond Positively to Coalition’s Demand for Services to be Rebuilt & Restored (October 23, 2018)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (June 4, 2018)
• RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (June 3, 2018)
• RELEASE: Provincial Election Discussion Should be About Rebuilding Public Hospitals & Long-Term Care Not “Efficiencies” or “Lean” or Code Words for Cuts: Health Coalition Calls for Concrete Commitments to Redress the Crisis in Access to Care (May 16, 2018)
• RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (April 13, 2018)
• RELEASE: Public Home Care Would Benefit Ontarians Despite Claims of Vested Interests/For-Profit Home Care Companies: Health Coalition Calls for More Details (November 6, 2017)
• RELEASE: Wynne Government’s Hospital Bed Announcement a Temporary Band-Aid But Health Coalition Slams Expanding Health Care Privatization (October 23, 2017)
• RELEASE: Coalition Warns Health Minister: Privatization of Ontario’s Health Systems for Patient Records and Information Will Incite Massive Public Opposition (October 7, 2016)
• RELEASE: User fees threatened for patients across Canada if court challenge negotiations fail to uphold Medicare (September 29, 2014)
• RELEASE: More than 80,000 Ontarians Vote to Stop Wynne Government Plan to Cut Local Community Hospitals and Contract Out Care to Private Clinics: Health Care Advocates Call On the Premier and New Health Minister to Stop the Privatization Plan (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: More than 56,000 Ontarians vote to stop the dismantling of community hospitals in volunteer-led referendum: Health Coalition (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: Ontario’s Wynne Government Plans to Bring In Private Clinics: Threatens Non-Profit Community Hospital Care (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: “OHC Austerity Index Part II” details how Hospital Cuts and Privatization Reach New Levels: Coalition Announces “S.O.S.” – Save Our Services – Day of Action (January 25, 2013)
• RELEASE: McGuinty Warned to Stop Health Care Privatization: OHC Responds to Drummond Commission (December 7, 2011)
• RELEASE: Coalition Applauds McGuinty Government for Taking Steps to Safeguard Single-Tier Medicare (June 21, 2011)
• RELEASE: OHC Calls on McGuinty Government to Stop NHS Privatization Plan in Welland (April 28, 2011)
• RELEASE: OHC Response to Throne Speech: Fears that New Hospital Funding System Threatens Patient Access, Leads to Privatization (March 8, 2010)
• RELEASE: Documents Revealed Through Freedom of Information Request Show Increasing Privatization and Consolidation of Ontario’s Medical Laboratory Services (October 8, 2009)
• RELEASE: Tory’s Health Platform: A Recipe For Privatization (May 24, 2007)
• RELEASE: Legal Challenge to Medicare: Charter Challenge against Medicare in Ontario opportunistic and dishonest (May 2, 2007)
• RELEASE: Private Clinic Aligns with Conservatives in Misleading Campaign to Privatize Health System (March 22, 2007)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Slams Private Clinic Proposal & John Tory’s Support for Privatization (March 16, 2007)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions Accuse Harper Government of Allowing Privatization and Not Improving the Public System (February 5, 2007)
• RELEASE: Two-Tier Health Clinic in Kingston Contravenes Law: OHC Calls on Ministry to Take Action (December 12, 2006)
• RELEASE: Legal Opinion on the Copeman Clinic (January 30, 2006)
• Toronto Star Editorial: Public health care cheapest and best (December 22, 2005)
• Up to 23 New Hospitals to Be Privatized Under Government’s 5-Year Infrastructure Plan: Coalition Launches Major Plebiscite to Keep Hospitals Public (May 25, 2005)
• Budget Announcement Outlines Wholesale Hospital Privatization: Health Coalition Outraged at Betrayal (May 11, 2005)
• Billions in Public Taxes Risked by P3 Hospital Privatization: 100 Failed, Flawed and Abandoned Projects Used to Warn Politicians (April 7, 2005)
• Billions in Public Taxes Risked by P3 Hospital Privatization: 100 Failed, Flawed and Abandoned Projects Used to Warn Politicians (April 7, 2005)
• RELEASE: MRI – CT In-Hospital Investment Applauded by Ontario Health Coalition (February 4, 2005)
• RELEASE: MRI Buyback A Sound Investment – Health Coalition Slams Tory Hypocricy (July 23, 2004)
• RELEASE: Coalition says private operator not appropriate for mental health and addictions facility on Queen (September 9, 2003)
• RELEASE: Profits poached from public health: Ontario government must cancel for-profit MRI and CT clinic, says Ontario Health Coalition (August 6, 2003)
• RELEASE: For-Profit Hospitals & Clinics threaten the future of Medicare: Ontario Health Coalition Launches Fight Back (March 31, 2003)
• RELEASE: Coalition casts doubt on Clement’s MRI numbers, calls them “Unbelievable” (February 28, 2003)
• RELEASE: Eves guilty of hidden money, misspending: Ontario Health Coalition (February 4, 2003)
• RELEASE: For-Profit MRI & CT Scan Update: Clement says he’s looking at it, Eves says “policy is evolving” (September 25, 2002)
• RELEASE: For-Profit MRI and CT clinics Slower, More Expensive, More Risky: Report (September 19, 2002)
• RELEASE: Banff Health Ministers’ Meeting: Minister Clement’s Semantics Disguise Fatal Poison Pill: Health Coalition Warns (September 4, 2002)
• RELEASE: For-Profit MRIs and CT Scans Extremely Grave Threat: Ontario Health Coalition Warns of Public Response (July 8, 2002)
• RELEASE: Throne Speech – Tories still stuck in privatization rut (May 10, 2002)
• RELEASE: What Doesn’t the CD Howe Institute Understand About Who Pays for Health Costs? (May 1, 2002)
• RELEASE: End Botched Cancer Care Privatization Now! (December 13, 2001)
• RELEASE: Senate Report Fatally Biased (October 29, 2001)
• RELEASE: US and Canadian Activists Target Health Privateers (August 9, 2001)
• RELEASE: More than $190,000 in political donations from another big winner in Harris health policy (March 21, 2001)
• RELEASE: Health Care Watchdog Slams Privatization of Cancer Treatment in Ontario (February 19, 2001)
• RELEASE: Telehealth Launch a Milestone in Privatization Agenda (February 15, 2001)
• RELEASE: Community Activists Come Together in Sudbury to Form Local Health Coalition and Organize Public Forum on Privatization (March 20, 2000)
• RELEASE: Witmer’s Home Care Policies Forcing Privatization (January 24, 2000)
• RELEASE: Tory Support for Private, For-Profit Sector Increasing Cost of Health Care (January 10, 2000)