OPINION: Ontario’s health-care wait times are ‘remarkably’ long |
Provincial government’s self-ascribed targets are generous while patients languish and deteriorate
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Last week, in a story about the Doug Ford government’s plan to increase the number of private clinics and reduce wait times in Ontario, one Toronto-based doctor told CTV News that Ontario’s health-care system is in “remarkably good shape.”
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According to the Progressive Conservative government, nearly a quarter of children in Ontario wait too long for general pediatric care. All children wait four months (on average) for “non-urgent” treatment, compared to the government’s ridiculously long target of no more than six months. Crucially, this is only after they first wait weeks or months........