Ontario is winding down a pandemic-era program that gave uninsured patients in the province access to medically necessary care in hospitals.
"With lower rates of COVID-19 and the ending of public health restrictions, the province is winding down its pandemic response measures to focus resources on delivering services Ontarians need the most," the ministry's email reads.
"If you have to choose between feeding your family and treating an infection — those are not real choices. People will choose to feed their families, and they will suffer," the network wrote. Dr. Edward Xie is an emergency physician with the University Health Network and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He says giving uninsured patients access to hospital care and then taking it away is 'terrible.'
The report says this program helped people with study or work permits, precarious housing and mental health issues, as well as those like Celeste without an authorized immigration status. But they're hard to track — the most recent research in 2016 estimated there were about 500,000 people living in Ontario without insurance.
"The government will rely on the goodwill of physicians who often exercise a moral obligation to care for uninsured persons without being compensated."In a statement, NDP health critic France Gélinas called the move against the "small" program cruel and inhumane.
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