Likening medicare to communism, Ford moves ahead with plans for privatized, two-tier health care in Ontario

The crumbling of the country’s medical services during COVID has opened the way for a major push by those who favour private, for-profit health care, and Doug Ford is among the premiers leading the way.

There’s a lot of money to be made in private health services and Premier Doug Ford, as with his other projects, seems determined to make sure Ontario’s wealthy business class gets a big chunk of it, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

January 25, 2023

OTTAWA—A lot of right-wingers in North America think single-payer health care is socialism or communism. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who once said he admired Donald Trump, can be counted among them.

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