@thegrittynursepodcast: Where will Ontario healthcare—and our nurses—be in 3 years?$4.1B spent on private clinics, yet wait times are UP. A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals that between 2017 and 2025, Ontario poured $4.1 billion into private, for-profit facilities to clear backlogs—yet median MRI wait times climbed from 35 to 47 days, and cataract wait times worsened despite a 185% surge in funding to private eye clinics. Because for-profit clinics cost taxpayers up to 3x more per procedure, critical funding is being siphoned away from public community hospitals now facing massive deficits and empty operating rooms. If this continues over the next 3 years, nurses in public hospitals will face escalating workload, more workplace violence and severe moral distress—caring for sicker patients with fewer resources as staff are drawn to lighter private workloads or costly temp agencies. Siphoning staff doesn’t create new health human resources; it hollows out public capacity and risks locking Ontario into a two-tier system where care depends on your wallet, not your health card. What do you think Ontario should do? Drop your thoughts below. #ontario #healthcare #dougford #nurse #canada

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B.🇨🇦 :

I will never forgive anyone who didn’t vote Doug out

2026-10-06 01:32:16

HeartTourniquet :

and there's nothing we can do until 2030

2026-10-06 16:22:35

WRHC :

Ontario public healthcare is on the edge of the abyss: underfunding, staffing depletion, underutilized capacity, and privatization. We cannot wait until 2030. Doug Ford needs to hear from his constituents now!

2026-10-06 22:08:16

✨Mama Nurse Tina✨ :

Le sigh

2026-10-06 05:16:13

Emla :

Criminal

2026-10-06 12:01:43

Uncommon Plans :

If the clinics are private and for-profit then WHY DO THEY NEED MY TAX DOLLARS???

2026-10-07 19:19:34

Leah Martel :

This should be considered theft

2026-10-07 22:02:45

Jeff :

😡

2026-10-06 19:32:09

samandwill :

That money should have gone to helping hospitals getting new equipment or building new hospitals. but he's took our money and spent it on lavish centers so that he could hire a USA Insurance company and make it private. if you got the money I guess that's fine. no it's not fine because if the insurance company says well you're 80 years old. we're not going to put money into giving you any health care. then you don't get it and you die. you know how it works. just ask anybody in the United States how dare he take our money and spend it on something he wanted so he could line his pockets

2026-10-06 02:24:51

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