Dear Editor:
Thank you to the residents who have shared their concerns regarding Bill 60 – Your Health Act, by writing their letters to the editor. We have shown we care about stopping Premier Doug Ford and his government from destroying the health services we value so deeply.
Currently Bill 60 has been referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, Legislative Assembly of Ontario. When many concerned Ontarians write a submission, short or long, to this committee our collective voices can make a difference.
This government has chosen to:
– abandon their promise of patient-centred care and to embrace a plan supporting profit and greed;
– dismantle hospital services beginning with surgeries and diagnostics;
– devalue the expertise of hospital workers;
– divert tax payer dollars away from hospitals;
– forward tax payer dollars to private for-profit clinics, allowing them to receive OHIP payments and additional monies from patients;
– create a health crisis response which favours Ontarians who can pay more;
– force average Ontarians to languish in the long wait times of over extended emergency rooms;
– be content with the fact that so many Ontarians lack a primary care physician;
– risk the health of Ontarians by accepting emergency room closures across the province; and
– abandon services for mental health needs by cash strapping hospitals and siphoning tax dollars to for-profit clinics.
This government is hellbent on setting up private for-profit clinics as the solution to the province’s health care crisis.
This government cannot ignore the people of Ontario. Our MPPs must vote on Bill 60 with their conscience and their heart! They must stand up for the people of Ontario!
Marta Hoyles and Ken Feakins,
Mount Forest