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Goodbye health care
Feb. 26th, 2019 06:06 pmRule of political jargon: Whenever a thing is called a SmartThing or a SuperThing, you are being sold a bill of goods, and guaranteed it will be neither Super nor Smart.
This will no doubt be true about the new Ontario Health super-agency, because this government has not yet met a thing it could not royally fuck up.
I suspect it will consist largely of people being tossed out of hospitals in favour of "community care," which will involve relying on the low-wage labour of women of colour if you're rich, already overworked family members if you're middle class, and the heat from the sidewalk grate if you're poor. Though the Beaverton's suggestion that it will lead to the replacement of hallway medicine with open concept medicine is a likely possibility too.
Greater than zero people I know are dealing with serious to life-threatening medical conditions right now and I am worried that this will be the year where I end up saying goodbye to a lot of friends. All this so Drug Fraud can get his off-the-books RV. Hope you like dying American-style, Ontario!
This will no doubt be true about the new Ontario Health super-agency, because this government has not yet met a thing it could not royally fuck up.
I suspect it will consist largely of people being tossed out of hospitals in favour of "community care," which will involve relying on the low-wage labour of women of colour if you're rich, already overworked family members if you're middle class, and the heat from the sidewalk grate if you're poor. Though the Beaverton's suggestion that it will lead to the replacement of hallway medicine with open concept medicine is a likely possibility too.
Greater than zero people I know are dealing with serious to life-threatening medical conditions right now and I am worried that this will be the year where I end up saying goodbye to a lot of friends. All this so Drug Fraud can get his off-the-books RV. Hope you like dying American-style, Ontario!
