MYTH BUSTER: 10 big myths about health care privatization

September 10, 2024

When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...

1. The Ford government is indeed privatizing our public health care system. It is false to claim they are not.

2. It is a political choice to privatize our health care. To claim it is necessary is false.

3. Privatization is a “take away” from our local public hospitals. It is false to say it is an “add on.”

4. Privatization makes wait times worse. It is false to claim that it improves them.

5. For-profit clinics and hospitals do not save money. They cost more not less.

6. Private clinics routinely charge patients thousands of dollars on top of OHIP.

7. Private for-profit medicine is not more efficient, it is more costly and more dangerous.

8. Wait times exist in for-profit health care systems. It is false to claim that private health systems do not have wait times or that Canada has the worst wait times.

9. Funding matters. It is false to claim that more funding won’t improve services.

10. We can afford to restore our public health care to its former place of pride. It is false to claim we cannot. In fact, what we can’t afford is privatization.

Read more at the Ontario Health Coalition

Please do join us for a quick briefing and discussion about the next phase of the fightback to stop Ford's health care privatization at the Update, High-Level Briefing & Strategy Meeting on Wednesday, September 11th, 7 p.m. via Zoom online. Click here to register.