Posted March 10, 2026
By OPSEU
There is only ONE healthcare workforce in Ontario. And when Doug Ford pours money into private for-profit healthcare delivery, it affects all healthcare workers universally.
In Ontario, privatization of public medicare continues full on with more and more of our public money going to for profit corporations delivering American-style healthcare – more expensive and less reliable. Doug Ford is investing heavily in expensive private, for-profit providers in long-term care, nurse practitioner clinics, cataracts, knee and hip surgeries, MRIs and diagnostics, and more. These are being favoured as our publicly funded, less expensive hospital operating rooms, radiology clinics, and diagnostic equipment sit unused, underutilized, and understaffed.
After investigations by the Ontario Health Coalition, we know private for-profit clinics for cataract surgeries in Ontario are charging elderly Ontarians hundreds and thousands of dollars for additional services, making profit while charging patients and the government for the same thing. The Government of Ontario is expanding this privatization even further as some surgeries and procedures will no longer be available from public providers and only through for-profit corporations.
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