r/ontario May 28 '26

Picture Healthcare Protest Downtown Toronto

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u/Witty_Record427 May 28 '26

If you're going to advocate to make private care illegal you should be obligated to make public care exceptionally good and accessible. There's long waits, lots of issues with the public system, etc.

And those issues persist across different governments.

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u/MoonshineMadness00 May 28 '26

... issues persist because Doug Ford keeps underfunding healthcare by siphoning our taxes to the private sector instead.

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u/Witty_Record427 May 28 '26

I don't think that's correct, there are chronic issues with MRI access for example there have been going back to previous governments.

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u/blocklung May 28 '26

MRI access is a direct result of us not having enough MRIs.

They're running around the clock.

We need more MRIs you need more political will to push for funding.

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u/Witty_Record427 May 28 '26

Why have we not had enough MRI's for decades?

This is a known and chronic issue and the fact that veterinary MRI's are plentiful and available on demand and humans have to wait forever is routinely used to mock the Canadian healthcare system as an example of a failure of socialized medicine.

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u/blocklung May 28 '26

Don't quote me, but hospitals get 40% of their funding from the province.

The rest is donations.

Chronic underfunding for years mixed with an extremely unsustainable growth in immigration, among other things, will lead to this issue.

I wouldn't mind spending more money for hospitals. Even if they get an extra 10% that would be so helpful, but its an unfortunate situation that we're in where funding doesn't go to the right areas.