Get it right Lou
In this quote Lou Rinaldi exposes his ignorance of the situation at the local hospital, "Northumberland-Quinte West M-P-P Lou Rinaldi says he's saddened by the emotional debate over the future of hospital services ."
It is no emotional debate Loo, it is a dispute about private billing, the outsourcing of services and the inability to provide OHIP funded services to local people. As the former Medical Officer of Heath, for Northumberland said recently, "Health Care is available but not accessible!"
If the nearest OHIP funded rehab clinic is in Oshawa, who will be going, on their dime, there? Will ambulances be ferrying stroke victims to rehab?
But even more importantly due to the lack of detailed financial statements the public does not know just how costly the Rehab Clinic is. OHIP funds in one side and hospital expenses on the other. What expenses get assigned to the Clinic, are the costs fair and properly apportioned? How much is the shortfall, if the Clinic was not paying its way with OHIP revenue and why cannot the subsidy, if there was one, be continued?
All we know is that people who need rehab will not be getting it and how much more of a burden will that be to the health system at large?
Download the petition here and get 10 of your friends to sign it.
Sign the online petition here
It is no emotional debate Loo, it is a dispute about private billing, the outsourcing of services and the inability to provide OHIP funded services to local people. As the former Medical Officer of Heath, for Northumberland said recently, "Health Care is available but not accessible!"
If the nearest OHIP funded rehab clinic is in Oshawa, who will be going, on their dime, there? Will ambulances be ferrying stroke victims to rehab?
But even more importantly due to the lack of detailed financial statements the public does not know just how costly the Rehab Clinic is. OHIP funds in one side and hospital expenses on the other. What expenses get assigned to the Clinic, are the costs fair and properly apportioned? How much is the shortfall, if the Clinic was not paying its way with OHIP revenue and why cannot the subsidy, if there was one, be continued?
All we know is that people who need rehab will not be getting it and how much more of a burden will that be to the health system at large?
Download the petition here and get 10 of your friends to sign it.
Sign the online petition here
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