Photo from Doug Ford (Twitter) The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) Economic and Budget Outlook review has identified planned government spending savings that come via announced program changes (program…
A key result of low hospital funding (discussed in the previous post) is that Ontario has fewer beds than the rest of Canada and far fewer beds than other developed…
Hospitals typically benchmark against each other to determine care levels and efficiency. But when Ontario hospitals are bench marked against hospitals in other provinces, a pattern clearly emerges – under-funding…
Tens of thousands of new Long-Term Care (LTC) beds needed just to offset aging The new Progressive Conservative government in Ontario has promised 30,000 new long-term care beds over the…
Buried in this week’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) report on the Ontario government books is a very quiet admission that Ontario ran a surplus of $700 million in 2017/18 (when…
Last year the government promised a 4.64% health care funding increase in 2018/19. Then, earlier this month, they announced they would deficit spend to improve hospitals, mental health, home care,…
Bowing to public pressure and the over-capacity crisis in our hospitals, the Ontario minister of health and long-term care, Eric Hoskins, announced Friday hospital funding of $187 million to deal…
The government plans to cut employer Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) premiums $2.4 billion per year. Here’s the plan laid out in the 2016 Budget documents: The WSIB has…
The Auditor General (AG) has again identified issues in her annual report which reflect problems with Ontario health care capacity and privatization. First, here are six key problems with the…
Real provincial government health care funding per-person has fallen again this year in Ontario, the third year in a row. Since 2009 real funding per-person has fallen 2.6% — $63…
The composition of the abour movement has fundamentally changed over the last twenty years. The article below reviews dramatic changes in public and private sector unionization and some surprising differences…
The 2016-17 Ontario Public Accounts came out yesterday – almost a month early. The Accounts finalize the books for 2016/17 and show that the deficit is down a further$500 million…
An “expert panel” appointed by the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) has now recommendedthe reduction in the number of Public Health boards from 36 to 14, matching the…
CUPE is campaigning for a legislated minimum average of four worked hours of nursing and personal care per resident per day in long-term care (LTC) facilities. New research indicates that…
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports that total expenditures on Ontario hospitals increased to $23.7 billion in 2016. This is an increase of 2.4% since 2015 and 6.1%…
The Financial Accountability Office (FAO) predictssignificant deficits over the next several years – despite also predicting significant economic growth. Using the government’s accounting method, the FAO is predicting budget deficits…
In the lead up to the Budget, the government crowed that they had heard the public and would improve funding for hospitals. However, based on government announcements, they actually plan…
Hospital funding: There is something off about the provincial government’s Budget claims on hospital capital funding (funding to build and renovate hospital beds and facilities). For what it is worth…
The government has answered the question about who might benefit from the improved fiscal situation of the province. At least in part. The government’s announcement that they will spend $2.5…
The government has answered the question about who might benefit from the improved fiscal situation of the province. At least in part. The government announcement yesterday that they will spend…
