Ontario Health Coalition

• Report reveals Ontario for-profit clinics charging patients thousands in unlawful fees

  More than 100 Ontario patients are speaking out in a new report about user fees being charged in private clinics, with most of the patients being seniors on fixed incomes.

  Health

  Apr 16, 2024
  
• Advocacy group accuses Ontario of trying to ‘dismantle’ public health-care system

  An advocacy group is accusing province of deliberately underfunding health care in the province. A government spokesperson said the group was "ideologically opposed" to them.

  Health

  Feb 21, 2024
  
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• Ontario hospitals closed for thousands of hours this year: report

  A new report from a health-care advocacy group has found emergency departments have been closed for thousands of hours so far this year in Ontario.

  Health

  Dec 5, 2023
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• 98% of London voters oppose Ontario’s privatization health care plan

  On Tuesday, the London Health Coalition announced that of the 15,483 residents who filled a ballot about privatized public health care, 15,305 people were against Bill 60.

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  May 30, 2023
• Ontario Health Coalition holds ‘community-run referendum’ against privatization of health care

  The results of the vote will be tallied this weekend and presented to Queen's Park on Monday.

  Health

  May 26, 2023
• Over $42K in wrongful fees charged to Ontario patients by clinics since 2018

  Advocates and the province have differing interpretations of the relatively low number of charges found to go against laws protecting patients from paying for free health services.

  Health

  May 9, 2023
• ‘Enough is enough:’ Health coalition rallies against Ontario’s privatization health care plan

  Launch events unveiling the referendum were held across several cities Tuesday, including a rally outside St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ont.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2023
• Ontario nursing home law violates Charter, advocates allege in lawsuit

  Advocates allege in a lawsuit that a controversial Ontario long-term care law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2023
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• How effective is the Ontario law that allows fines for patients who refuse pre-arranged LTC beds?

  Several Toronto-area hospitals told Global News they had not used the controversial powers in Bill 7 to force alternative level of care patients to move, nor had they issued fines.

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  Nov 21, 2022
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• Advocates for elderly patients vow Charter challenge to Ontario LTC law

  Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, describes the More Beds Better Care Act as 'fundamentally discriminatory' against the frail and elderly.

  Health

  Nov 20, 2022