Dr. Nancy Olivieri
@DrNancyOlivieri
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#Whistleblower #Prof #Peds #Med #PublicHealth Legal victories I can’t talk about yet. Researcher. Veteran vs academic #corruption. Book + mini-series underway.
Joined February 2018
Ongoing thanks to profs & colleagues @kings_mfa for helping me write this 25 year story (now on its 85th draft 😀).@kimpittaway @skimber @neilsenglenn @VirginiaHeff @Wendyblogger @DeanJobb others, mentor @KenMcGoogan and @LorimerBooks.
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“How do we have public dollars for private clinics, but not for hospitals?”.🔥🔥🎯🙏@peterbergmanis @NormatLFPress.
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"Make no mistake: the healthcare crisis has been manufactured by @fordnation". >$1B budgeted for health care was not spent. Please vote in the @OntarioHealthC referendum online (takes 1 minute): #Bill60.
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A smooth career path for many academics. .🙏Susanne Täuber @MoriMahmoudi .#bullying #whistleblowing #corruption
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Nailed it again, @LindaMcQuaig ."I’d gladly forego the joy of being able to pick up a ready-made cocktail at Loblaws so that millions of dollars could be redirected to our ever-closing emergency wards.".
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Hoping for accountability. Judge OKs lawsuit against @fordnation and his buddies who continue to profit from suffering in Ontario #LTC. #grossnegligence.
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64 @fordnation MPPs voted in #Bill60.They are the people about whom Tommy Douglas warned: "the people who can pay"."The people who can pay will get the best care, the most experienced surgeons & physicians.The people who can't pay-they'll take what's left".
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Took this yesterday while walking home from Queen’s Park after watching The 68 Henchmen of @fordnation vote away Medicare. Still reeling. 🙏@ontarionurses @OntarioHealthC @NatalieMehra1 @HurleyOCHUCUPE @OPSEU + all Ont citizens determined to fight #Bill60:.
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💔.An 11-year-old without vital signs needed a #paramedic; none were available. She was pronounced dead after being transported to hospital. @CUPEOntario warned in 2020 that under @fordnation this type of tragedy would become commonplace. /1.
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"Today is a sad day -- a day that will go down in Ontario history, the day that @fordnation delivered a fatal blow to our treasured #Medicare": 🎯@NickelBelt. Please join the vote against privatization. /1.
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Worth many retweets. "Private clinic surgeries have cost taxpayers more than double what they would in the public system": Last day!! please vote against the #ForProfit agenda of @fordnation: .#Bill60 .@OntarioHealthC.
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The way it's done. "The colonoscopy is under OHIP but you must talk to our dietician *for $200* first.".Do you need a dietitian? No. "But if you want your colonoscopy now you must pay our dietician-or wait weeks for a colonoscopy in hospital.".�@NickelBelt.
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Number of Ontario #LTC homes that have been inspected under @fordnation: . 9 of 626. Number of Ontario LTC homes which were fined or lost a license, even for gross neglect, during that period: . 0. @DrVivianS @OntarioHealthC @HurleyOCHUCUPE.
Did you know Ontario has the lowest number of regulations per capita in Canada? When it comes to reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens, we’re getting it done. Learn more about our strong record of red tape reduction: #RTAW
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Worth many retweets. @TorontoStar really nails it here. Minden ED closure is "a direct result" of @fordnation's policies: "Look no further than #Bill124 and #Bill60, "Ford’s crown jewel in his #privatization plans":.#mindenmatters .@mindenmatters @DFisman
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Congratulations to @OntarioHealthC for the outstanding results of its citizens' referendum. Message for @fordnation and The 68: . Every ballot here is an Ontario citizen. In a democracy "there exists no higher rank or title than that of citizen"
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Can't retweet this too often. Under @fordnation, “our public systems are impoverished, poor kids deprived, while corpses pile up in nursing homes handed over to corporate sharks.”.But, that licence plate rebate. 🙏 @LindaMcQuaig .
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"Concerned about Ontario’s new private healthcare clinics and surgeries?" ."What do you think @fordnation is going to do - starve the public health care system until it collapses, and then charge whatever they want -- because what choice will you have?" .#perfect.
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🎯🎯🎯.Worth many retweets. "Perhaps we can trust @fordnation there won’t be corruption, extreme profiteering or diminished standards in #ForProfit clinics. But then why introduce #Bill60, that opens the door to all these possibilities?"🙏@LindaMcQuaig.
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.@fordnation's definition of "cost efficient.".Rates paid to #ForProfit Don Mills Surgical Unit, vs those paid to #public hospitals for *same* procedures. " "If I were running that centre, I would be a millionaire' said one surgeon.".
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For anyone who claims "two tier medicine" shortens wait times. An exodus of doctors to private sector (where ppl who can pay jump the queue for quicker access) means *fewer doctors* & *longer wait lists* in the public. @OntarioHealthC .They knew this. 1/.
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"Privatized health care is more expensive than public health care. Not just by a little bit, but wildly more expensive." .🎯🙏@LindaMcQuaig. Please takes ONE minute to vote in @OntarioHealthC referendum:
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Shocking and obscene greed. "Canadian Health Labs billed $1.6M for 'meals for nurses’ (who paid for their own food) "raising questions about why *public* money was reimbursed for an expense apparently not incurred.".Yup, I’d say that's a question. #fraud.
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For any still claiming ForProfit healthcare "shortens wait lists & improves the system": Evidence.In Aus, UK, *all* OECD nations: ForProfit care produces longer wait times, draws resources out of the public system #Bill60 ..🙏@vanessabrcic @CdnDrs4Medicare
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I may be the only person who missed this. Weeks before @fordnation & @SylviaJonesMPP closed #Minden ED, they announced a $14 million plan to 'modernize, redevelop, and expand' two Muskoka hospitals:. *Muskoka*. 1/.
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Worth many RTs.If @fordnation spent the per capita provincial *average* on #healthcare over last 5 yrs, there would be another $7.2B to properly pay #nurses, attract more nurses, bring back into use ORs idled by years of budget cuts." 🎯@LindaMcQuaig .
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Tommy Douglas told us "Never listen to them when they say that we can’t afford Medicare.". We MUST afford it for all who could not afford that $1453 in 1955, or $16,000 now.
@DrNancyOlivieri showed the crowd her grandfather’s medical bill from 1955 for a stay at a Hamilton hospital for $1453.65 (prior to the intro of public medicare). That is $16,000 in 2023. Can you spare $16,000 for a hospital stay? @fordnation for wants to bring these days back.
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🎯🎯🎯@menrvasofia."Great leaders aren't racists, aren't liars, aren't thieves. A great leader doesn’t pander to special interests. A great leader listens to the people. Bring on an election. Dump @fordnation now.".
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This is abuse. @SylviaJonesMPP to patients who were upsold for uninsured services: "You consented.".But many of the patients had poor vision, are elderly, and/or not clear on what is/isn't covered. 🎯🎯@NickelBelt: "This is not consent."..@OntarioHealthC.
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Met one of my heroes @raghu_venugopal today at Queen’s Park, marching with thousands for publicly funded health care. Later he'll be working in the ER *all night*. #NationalTreasure #PatientsOverProfits.@OntarioHealthC
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For those claiming #Bill60 is a victory ("our health care system isn’t working". ). There's a *reason* it isn’t working: In one sentence: @fordnation had the money, but starved the system so his friends could reap profit from healthcare. 💔
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🎯🎯@sebastianj_l . "@fordnation is not so much #ForThePeople, as for maintenance of comfort for elites, as the poor, addicted, disabled, homeless, sick, mentally-ill. die at their earliest convenience."."Preferably quietly, not to disturb those in power".
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Under @fordnation Ontario has the LOWEST hospital funding of any province. But provincial revenues are $19.5B HIGHER than estimated in 2021. Ford doesn’t want you to remember this. @mindenmatters @OntarioHealthC #saveminden
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Nailed it, @TorontoStar. "[If] the healthcare crisis has roots beyond @fordnation, it doesn't mean Ford isn’t responsible for making it worse.".Exhibit A: #Bill124.🎯💡"Ford must display the same respect for nurses & PSWs that he does for police officers" .
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More @fordnation at work. As "a steady stream of #nurses quit out of fatigue & frustration" #ForProfit agencies (shocker) step in to reap obscene profits. UHN nursing agency expenditures:.2021: $775,926.2022: $6.74 million.*This* is what #Bill124 is about.
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"It’s easy to pit the #LCBO vs consumers but these 9000 workers represent more than themselves. They represent the struggle for good jobs vs bad jobs with cookie-cutter #private-sector retailers that don’t give a fig about their employees" 🎯@David_Moscrop.
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"Our public healthcare system is broken" is not news. Breaking it is @fordnation's plan. Ont has lowest hosp funding, fewest hosp beds of any province but revenues $19.5B *higher* than 2021. That's lots of $$ for public services, if the will were there.
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You really need to hear this again, @fordnation. *Ontario is not yours to privatize*.
1000s took a stand for public #healthcare today.You really need to hear this, @fordnation: .*Ontario is not yours to privatize*.👋 @OntarioHealthC @NatalieMehra1 @HurleyOCHUCUPE @FredHahnCUPE @raghu_venugopal .@MaritStiles @JohnFraserOS @MikeSchreiner .@GTorontoHC, many others
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Still reeling.
Took this yesterday while walking home from Queen’s Park after watching The 68 Henchmen of @fordnation vote away Medicare. Still reeling. 🙏@ontarionurses @OntarioHealthC @NatalieMehra1 @HurleyOCHUCUPE @OPSEU + all Ont citizens determined to fight #Bill60:.
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Words matter. What @fordnation said: "Innovative channels and alternative health facilities.".What he meant: #ForProfit clinics and hospitals. @HurleyOCHUCUPE @OntarioHealthC
The #privatization of health care by @fordnation was quiet *only* on the cusp of an election when he played down plans for 'alternate health facilities.' . But now it's open season toward #ForProfit clinics and hospitals. #PatientSafety #Greed.@HurleyOCHUCUPE @OntarioHealthC.
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The #privatization of health care by @fordnation was quiet *only* on the cusp of an election when he played down plans for 'alternate health facilities.' . But now it's open season toward #ForProfit clinics and hospitals. #PatientSafety #Greed.@HurleyOCHUCUPE @OntarioHealthC.
Quiet no more. @fordnation and @celliottability have moved on from discussion of "innovative channels" and "alternate health facilities".
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Quiet no more. @fordnation and @celliottability have moved on from discussion of "innovative channels" and "alternate health facilities".
.@fordnation's definition of "cost efficient.".Rates paid to #ForProfit Don Mills Surgical Unit, vs those paid to #public hospitals for *same* procedures. " "If I were running that centre, I would be a millionaire' said one surgeon.".
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A reminder of what we all now know. As @fordnation continues to hoard provincial revenues of *billions*, Ontario has the fewest hospital beds and nurses of any province: .
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"@fordnation is swimming in money, even as it hollows out key public programs - underfunding #schools, shutting down #hospital #emergency departments, doing nothing for the #homeless".@LindaMcQuaig nails it again:.
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"Beyond developers" . and beyond acceptable. After sharing a table at the wedding one guest was appointed by @fordnation to sit on a provincial agency. Another, a lobbyist, is now working for a developer pushing to "re-designate" the #Greenbelt.
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In September, private companies including (surprise) @ShopprsDrugMart became responsible for distribution of medical supplies - "simply an exercise in cost savings" as patients suffer unnecessarily. In other words, the ongoing playbook of @fordnation.
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Grim account of the last two months of inaction and dithering by @fordnation which really does demonstrate what leadership is *not*. No other way to judge this government: Delinquent. #VoteFordOut2022 .@bruce_arthur.
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Under @fordnation, temporary staffing agencies engage in "rapid price gouging", up to 4 times *artificially suppressed* #nursing wages. "We see surge pricing [like Uber] and it's very busy on a Friday night." 🎯@ShamjiAdil .#criminal #Bill124.
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As Ford's henchwoman Caroline Mulroney defended #Bill124, and the legal battle, @MikeSchreiner nails it:."It shows how out of touch @fordnation is with the needs of everyday people, to waste $4.3M in support of unconstitutional legislation.".
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This is a very tough read. 💔. "Everyone here is alive today, or knows someone who is, because of the doctors and nurses who have spent the past 27 years making this ED an anchor of the community.". @Fordnation at work, for the people. @mindenmatters.
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Saturday morning. And rain. But I'll be out with signs for the @OntarioHealthC's citizen referendum. Do you oppose @fordnation's privatization of our Ont health-care system?.Plse make your voice heard: .Vote in polling stations May 26-27, or online: .🙏🐶
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.@fordnation is not telling the truth (shocker) when he claims "more ppl are getting access to care faster" in #ForProfit clinics: . Apologies for repeat posting to all here who know the *evidence* on wait times: .🙏@CdnDrs4Medicare
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More on @fordnation’s work For The People. Double billing. Overcharging. Upselling. All illegal. .🙏@OntarioHealthC
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Education funding ⬇️ by $1,200/student under @fordnation. Which is why teachers buy most learning materials themselves, why schools rely on fundraising for supplies, why schools in lower-income areas are hurting. All how Ford wants it. .🎯🙏@LindaMcQuaig.
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Once again @LindaMcQuaig nails it. "@Fordnation use 'innovation' as a cover for crushing workers and channelling public funds to private interests. That’s not innovation. It’s a betrayal of their role as public guardians.".
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What Tommy DID say:."We must save Medicare from subtle strangulation".Not that @fordnation and his henchmen are subtle. In the context of today's Ontario this four 🔥minutes are 💔. Also, inspiring.
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💯💯💯 🙏@DrVivianS.Tommy Douglas warned us 40 yrs ago about people like @fordnation:."If you want a two-tiered health program, then just continue the way we're going." . Four minutes to watch if you think you will ever be sick:
Pay attention friends. We’re at the start of a broad sweeping and irreversible sea change in 🇨🇦 healthcare and I’m taking notes for who is complicit. Tommy Douglas would turn in his grave if he saw this unfolding. It’s damn shameful.
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Fixed the opening sentence here. "@fordnation forges ahead to lengthen wait times & poach #nurses from hospitals struggling with staff shortages.".🎯@BonnieCrombie 👋@Peter_Tabuns.Do we really need to review the evidence again?./1
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THIS is what #FotProfit clinics do - they cut costs. For Profit. "Devices used for wet cupping were not properly cleaned and sterilized between patients; single-use [devices] were reused on multiple patients.". Terrifying, but not new. /1.
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.@fordnation in US press today, noted to be "doing nothing to tackle structural problems contributing to COVID spread:#PaidSickLeave not included, evictions continue, ppl asked to bear burdens for which many are unequipped for reasons beyond their control"
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“The situation is clearly worse than they have been revealing.” 🎯👏@ShamjiAdil. Almost as if @fordnation hasn’t been telling the truth.
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No rest for me 🐶as @fordnation moves forward with hospital #privatization legislation #Bill60, which they have titled "Your Health Act".Please takes ONE minute to vote on line or in-person on May 26/27 in the @OntarioHealthC referendum.#PublicHospitalVote
Saturday morning. And rain. But I'll be out with signs for the @OntarioHealthC's citizen referendum. Do you oppose @fordnation's privatization of our Ont health-care system?.Plse make your voice heard: .Vote in polling stations May 26-27, or online: .🙏🐶
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.@OntarioHealthC nails it: ."A cesspool of conflicts of interest.”.Links between #ForProfit #LTC industry, and @Fordnation’s ministers and advisors:.
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I spoke about my grandfather his medical care in 1955, again this morning.In addition to increased risks of death & harm and worsening wait times, who among us can afford $15K for a single admission to hospital?.If you doubt this is coming, read #Bill60.
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A concept @fordnation can’t quite get his head around. “In a world where the rich can buy their way to the front of just about every line, there’s something inspiring about a health-care system where they can’t." 🔥..🙏@LindaMcQuaig @TorontoStar.
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No words. Housekeeper working in #LTC bumped from #vaccine queue in favour of #CEO’s wife. #Whistleblowers who spoke up fear losing their jobs, as LTC PR machine kicks in: “we support the safest possible environment for our residents.” .H/t @DrVivianS.
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Seems a good time to post this, for anyone who's still claiming "#Bill60 will shorten wait times.".As @vanessabrcic writes, "Let’s look at the evidence":.
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More than a "glimpse" into Ont EDs, this is an almost unbearable read. 🙏@raghu_venugopal .Q: "What are the main causes for what EDs are going through?".A: "Lack of hospital beds, lack of hospital beds, lack of hospital beds.".All in @fordnation's plan. 1/.
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This is huge. Secret contract between Manitoba Govt & none other than Dr, Brian Day, 🇨🇦's biggest proponent of user-pay, two-tier healthcare: 🙏@tmlinner.Exposed 🙏👋@MBHealthCoal .@OntarioHealthC.Reminder about #privatization of services & wait times. /1
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In 1996 Barry Sherman threatened lawsuits to try to prevent me informing patients re risks of a drug. It got worse from there. This🔥book @FearLoathingBTX would have provided a guidebook. My article on the experience of all #whistleblowers: �@TorontoStar
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Our tax dollars at work. #CEO of a publicly-funded Ontario hospital working with @fordnation to make #ForProfit corporations richer: .🙏@ontarionurses @HealthyDebate.H/t @ChipPitfield @corruptario.
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"The rising cost of temporary #nursing agencies is measured in millions - but also in the injustices that they impose upon #healthcare workers and Ontario's healthcare institutions." .🎯👋@ShamjiAdil.
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🎯🎯🎯.The incomparable @LindaMcQuaig, always worth many retweets: "While underfunding our public programs didn’t start with @fordnation, his government has raised this sorry practice to a guiding principle.".
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Another key point @fordnation and his henchmen who voted in #Bill60 do not mention. "When complications arise in #ForProfit [surgical clinics], they end up relying on the public system to fix their errors at the taxpayer's expense".🙏🎯@CanHealthwatch.
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Every word here. "In the absence of a robust welfare state, and in the face of structural poverty and #discrimination particularly toward #disabled people, there is no world in which 🇨🇦 #MAiD can be understood to be 'progressive.' " .�🙏@David_Moscrop
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Worth many RTs. The "malignant indifference" of @fordnation to rural Ont "peels back another paper-thin layer to reveal another facet of the bubbling morass of moral turpitude this government thrives on".#theperfectsentence 🙏@sebastianj_l .@mindenmatters.
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🎯🎯🎯@DrGorfinkel .Exactly what @fordnation, Galen & all other #profiteers do not want us to understand. "To the extent *private* medicine is funded and staffed, *public* medicine is DEfunded & LESS staffed.".via @CdnChange.
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STOP Doug Ford from keeping TAXPAYERS in the DARK about Private Healthcare via @CdnChange.
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Honoured to accept #MaddoxPrize. Humbled to meet hero @cbpolis who has worked for #transparency vs great hostility x yrs. 🙏to an incredible @senseaboutsci team for this honour and for a wonderful 2 days! .🙏@PaulGarnerWoof @MohammadRazai @nickdearden75 @Richard56 @susan_bewley.
We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the 2023 #MaddoxPrize is @DrNancyOlivieri! @cbpolis has been awarded the Early Career Prize. Both have shown courage and dedication to communicate evidence for the public good despite facing hostility and threats
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Per capita, Ontario has the lowest health care and hospital funding & the fewest hospital beds and nurses of any province. Yet provincial revenues exceed $19.5 billion. @fordnation has plenty to spend on public services:..@OntarioHealthC @HurleyOCHUCUPE.
A lot of Canadians are waiting long hours in the #ER for emergency care. Why?.@CTVNews 🧵 #healthcare #emergency.
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Increased deaths and poorer care aside. The cost of #ForProfit Care is something @fordnation doesn’t often (that is, ever) explain. #Bill60.My grandfather could have explained it. He lived it. One hospital admission in 1955. $15,000 In 2022 dollars.
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28 years. On 24 May 96 #Pharma CEO Barry Sherman threatened "all legal remedies" if I disclosed problems w/ a drug. He later denied threats but recording had been saved🤣🙏@60Minutes.More stories of #whistleblowers in the.#Bookoftheyear 🙏@FearLoathingBTX
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Grim revealing must-read. The "healthcare ambitions" of Galen Weston are not good for our health. Big thanks to @JordanMRoberts.1/.
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More on @fordnation’s work For The People. No surprise, and always to be remembered: .Ford's relentless destruction of #healthcare is *illegal*. 🙏@OntarioHealthC./1
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Fiction:. "We always believe in giving the best [health care] we can. right across the province": @fordnation. Fact:. "The whole catchment of #Minden will have no hospital in the area to deal w heart attacks, seizures, strokes, injury, sickness." .
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Recall that under @fordnation Ont has the lowest hospital funding and fewest hospital beds & nurses of any province-but revenues $19.5B higher than estimated in 2021. Meaning there's lot$ to spend on public services, if the will were there. @mindenmatters.
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Nice racket, Galen. "The College of #Pharmacists can discipline only individual pharmacists/pharmacies, not corporations. If a pharmacist employed by @ShopprsDrugMart gets disciplined for doing too many MedsChecks, Galen can just replace them w/ a new pharmacist".@CanHealthwatch
Shoppers Drug Mart accused of unethical billing practices. by @nicktsergas.
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"Who knows what non-existent problem Doug Ford will solve next?".
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"These are not simply bad memories - the crisis in #healthcare, the lack of affordable #housing and explosion of #homelessness, the #underfunding of our schools." ."We have had enough 'common sense' for a lifetime.". 🙏John Cartwright .@CanadiansOrg
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.@fordnation explains the fine art of puppeteering:."I’m appointing like-minded people who believe in what we believe in.". Thought for the day, Doug: "The justice system is not a playground for politicians to bully.".
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🙏@JessicaBellTO ."Everyone should get access to good public health care based on need, not on how much you earn, where you live, the colour of your skin, or how old you are.". Reminder of the best four minutes ever.
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"Hospitals lack bed space 'in part' because beds are occupied by older patients waiting for #LTC"?.How about this other "part"?:.Ont has the fewest hospital beds (*and* nurses) of any province. This comes to mind 🙏🎯 @TheoMoudakis.
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One-sentence clarity. "It has been obvious to many for some time that @fordnation has no idea what needs to be done to protect the public from COVID and also lacks the requisite leadership skills to lead Ontario through to a best possible outcome.".
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Seriously @StanChoMPP?."I am not aware of any fines being issued under the law." .@MaritStiles nails it: "The threat of being fined $400/ day is likely enough to make most people acquiesce. Running this kind of program on fear is a terrible option." #Bill7.
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"I don’t think the NHS is failing. It is being failed.". As in Ontario, by neglect of deepening workforce shortages, underfunding and other starvation tactics of @fordnation. #Bill124 #Bill60 #2billionsurplus.
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When @fordnation gets "creative", we should worry. Asked if patients would pay for surgery at a private clinic Ford replied: "it would be 100% covered. Never gonna waver from that.".Then: "Are we gonna get creative? Absolutely".🙏@NickelBelt @drmwarner.
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