Trudeau calls Ford’s health-care changes an ‘innovation,’ but some Ontario Liberal MPs call it ‘American’-style health care ‘fundamentally’ opposed to Canadian values

Liberal MP Michael Coteau says that by introducing a for-profit element in Ontario's health-care system, patients' quality of care could decrease as ‘profits are put before patients’ in some private sector organizations.

Liberal MP Michael Coteau, a former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister, says Premier Doug Ford’s proposed changes to health care in Ontario would create a two-tier health system that would give residents with high income at an advantage. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

January 24, 2023

Premier Doug Ford’s proposed changes to Ontario health care will Americanize the provinces' health-care system where a resident's credit card—not their OHIP card—will determine the quality of the care they receive, say some Ontario Liberal MPs.

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