Fightback Against Ford Government’s Expanding Hospital Privatization Plans

Natalie Mehra, Executive Director, Ontario Health Coalition

2025-09-22

At this point, the Ford government knows that seniors are being charged thousands of dollars in the private clinics that they created. They know that taking more than a billion dollars a year away from public hospitals to the for-profit clinics and staffing corporations is destructive & more expensive. Instead of stopping the privatization, they are expanding it. The bottom line is they are doing what they can get away with.

That means we need to ratchet up real public pressure to make it impossible to ignore...to make it politically impossible to continue privatizing our public health care. 

To sit back and let it happen will result in hardship that is almost inconceivable. Imagine paying your life savings for surgery at age 80. That is already happening in Ford's for-profit cataract surgery clinics. Imagine what is going to happen as they privatize the rest of the lucrative hospital surgeries and tests.

Please take this seriously. Everyone can help make a difference. Please help spread the word and join in wherever you can.

For more information, visit the Ontario Health Coalition website.