PUBLIC HEALTHCARE MEETING: All are invited
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Landon Branch Public Library 167 Wortley Road London, ON N6C 3P6
The following is from the London Health Coalition:
Tuesday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Landon Branch Public Library
167 Wortley Rd., London
There’s no time to lose! Either we all fight for public health care now, or it’ll be gone.
Alberta has passed dangerous new legislation that ends universal public health care in Alberta & threatens it across Canada. It allows private clinics to charge patients for surgeries & tests, enables the wealthy to skip the queue & pressures everyone else to pay, wait longer, or go without. It’s not an abstract threat. Alberta started enacting the law October 1. We need to mount enough public & political pressure to stop them.
While not quite as draconian as Alberta’s new law, Ontario & Quebec patients also face user fees for needed health care that should never be allowed under the Canada Health Act. In Ontario, the Ford government has deliberately chosen to set funding rates for our public hospitals at lower than they need to maintain existing services to force them into deficit. It is requiring them to make cuts to eliminate their deficits. At the same time, it is shunting literally hundreds of millions in public money over to private/for-profit clinics to privatize their services. They are allowing privatization of primary care with pay-your-way nurse practitioner clinics and online companies.
Both in Ontario and Quebec, the richest patients are buying faster access to care while wait times for the majority are worse & costs are much higher.
These things should NEVER happen under our public medicare laws.
We are slowing them down, dramatically. And when we fightback we are able to stop them, often. But we need to raise our voices now, in no uncertain terms, because the future of our health care is at stake.
Come to our urgent town hall meeting and please share this message widely.