What We Are Calling For
Posted: May 27, 2024
(May 27, 2024)
At the giant protests on May 30 and throughout our spring-summer 2024 outreach campaign, we are calling for the Ford government to:
- Expand and fund community health centres to meet their populations’ needs
- Stop private nurse practitioner-, surgical- and diagnostic- clinics from unlawfully and illegally charging patients for primary care, surgeries and diagnostics
- Restore public hospital funding and bed capacity to match the average of the other provinces
- Stop the closures of small and rural hospitals
- Build the new long-term care beds as public and not-for-profit, instate mandatory minimum care standards and reinstate inspections and enforcement
- Create supportive housing options
- Build a public, non-profit home care system
- Increase staff supply to meet the population’s needs, attract back the staff who have left and increase enrolment in public colleges and universities
- Create national public Pharmacare (coverage for medications)
- Improve equity and provide OHIP for all
Links to other resources with our recommendations for safeguarding and improving public health care for all:
- Time to Rebuild: Health Care Platform for the 2018 Ontario General Election
- The Care We Need: Ontarians speak out on the state of home care & A proposal for reforming home care in the public interest
- Primary Care Reform Position Paper
- National public Pharmacare
- OHIP for All
- Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis
- Improve health equity