Opinion: Ford’s giant step toward more two-tiered health care should come as no surprise. He's made little secret of his fondness for private health-care companies, and has quietly increased the role of for-profit companies over the years.
Ever since he first became premier, Ford has made little secret of his fondness for private health-care companies while at the same time insisting with a grin on his face that he’s a champion of publicly funded, not-for-profit health care.
“The status quo isn’t working,” Ford said as he listed a pandemic-fueled backlog of 206,000 surgeries and diagnostic procedures in trying to justify opening the door wide to more two-tier health care in Ontario. Cheered on by insurance companies, conservative doctors, the right-wing Fraser Institute and media outlets, such as the Toronto Sun and National Post, Ford created a task force on health-care reform. It was headed by the late Reuben Devlin, a former Tory party president and hospital executive, who started the ball rolling on increasing privatization.
He gave out new 30-year licences to private operators that will result in 18,000 more beds in long-term care homes. Some of these operators performed so badly during the pandemic that the Canadian military was called in to help out.
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