Private Clinics

• 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
  
• Hamilton hospital staff deliver petition to protest health care privatization

  Hospital staff marched across Charlton Avenue on Monday to St. Joseph’s Hospital furthering outraged in the medical community over contacting out surgeries to private clinics.

  Canada

  Jun 12, 2023
  
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• Ontario passes health reform bill that expands private delivery of care

  Ontario has passed a health-reform bill that will allow more private clinics to offer certain publicly funded surgeries and procedures in an effort to cut long wait lists for care.

  Health

  May 8, 2023
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• ‘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
• N.B. to lose $1.3M in federal health payment crackdown over private clinics

  The federal government is trying to push provinces to ensure that patients don't need to pay for medically necessary services, no matter how they're delivered.

  Health

  Mar 12, 2023
• Moving public health services to for-profit clinics raises ‘legitimate concerns’: Duclos

  Ontario’s plan to expand private delivery of public health care raises 'legitimate concerns' about equitable access to needed health services, says Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos

  Health

  Jan 17, 2023
• Backlog in surgical procedures has Sask Party moving forward with private clinics

  As staff shortages continue, the Sask. Party says it is moving forward with surgical privatization, but one union is calling out the government saying the move is unacceptable.

  Health

  Jul 28, 2022
• Quebec opposition party wants private clinics to help fight COVID-19

  Québec solidaire will ask Premier François Legault to integrate private clinics into the public network to counter the skyrocketing number of hospitalizations linked to COVID-19.

  Politics

  Jan 19, 2021
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• Healthcare advocates rally against private healthcare and alleged over-billing

  Canadian doctors for Medicare and the BC Health Coalition have intervener status in the court case. The two groups are urging the government to take action on an audit, which revealed alleged extra billing at two of Day's clinics.

  Sep 29, 2014
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• Private clinics misleading, overcharging patients: Ontario Health Coalition

  Public health advocates say many private clinics in Ontario are misleading patients and unlawfully billing them for medically unnecessary services.

  Politics

  Mar 25, 2014