Destroying the Public Healthcare System to Fund a Private One: The New Wave of Healthcare in Canada
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In this episode, nurses and healthcare advocates Amie Archibald-Varley & Sara Fung discuss the new privatization clinics and hospitals proposed by the Ford government in Canada and Ontario. We also discuss strategies for how people can get involved in making changes and protecting our current system.
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: Defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital”~ Noam Chomsky.
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Links to resources/ Written Credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nd_lJCWOUM Noam Chomsky
https://cupe.ca/fords-plan-expand-private-clinics-ontario-will-cost-patients-dearly-risk-lives-and-significantly
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinics-health-care-1.6712444
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-surgery-wait-times-private-sector-clinics-1.6715340
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2023/01/19/the-warnings-about-doug-ford-and-private-health-care-are-coming-true.html
Video Clip: Credit:
https://www.tvo.org/video/is-expanding-private-health-care-the-right-move-for-ontario
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