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A Five-Point Plan for Ontario’s Future—Health 2
Promoting access to quality, sustainable health care close to home
The Green Party believes in a sustainable, public health care system
that provides every Ontarian with access to the quality health care
they require, when and where they need it.
We all have first-hand experience with challenges in our current sys-
tem, including long waits in emergency rooms, for specialists and
tests, and for appropriate long-term care. Many of us also face the
challenge of being unable to find a family doctor.
Adding to this is the growing sense of unease that health care spend-
ing is crowding out everything else the Ontario government must do,such as fund our educaon system, build and maintain roads and
transit systems, and provide other community services. Currently,
the health care budget is almost half of the provincial budget and if
current trends connue, it will eat up of the budget by .
Like you, the Green Party has long been aware that our health sys-
tem is facing unprecedented challenges. We are commied to ensur-
ing that our public health care system not only works for today, but
is sustainable for the next generaon.
ts me to refocus the health care system on programs that will pre-vent illness in the first place while improving access and quality. The
me to start is now, while we can sll aect the outcome. y making
front line health care more accessible, we can create eciencies and beer manage costs.
The good news is that there are soluons for the way forward. The real issue is that these soluons require polical
leadership, commitment and thinking that extends beyond the four-year elecon cycle – leadership the Green Party is
commied to providing.
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1. Prioritizing health promotion and illness preventionGovernments of the twenty first century cannot
speak of improving health care without under-
standing and confronng the lifestyle and envi-
ronmental issues facing us today. We know that a
penny invested in prevenng illness today saves a
dollar tomorrow.
We must recognize that keeping Ontarians
healthy is part and parcel of creang a sustaina-
ble, affordable health care system. Policies that
promote and reward healthy lifestyles are essen-
al to building a strong province.
Ontario only spends $7 per person on health pro-
moon and illness prevenon. n comparison,
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bec spends $6 per person.
t costs much less to keep people healthy than to
treat illness. We need to refocus the system to
concentrate on true health care, not just sick care.
We will:
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We will support the development of healthy, liveable, recreation-friendlycommunities.
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We will ensure clean air, water and food.
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We will provide incentives for people to pursue healthy lifestyles andsupport school-based nutrition, outdoor education and athletic programs.
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• Invest $200 million over four years for a healthy school food program, and set purchasing tar-
gets for local sustainable food.
• Invest $200 million over four years for a good food program that invests in community foodprograms that promote access to healthy food, community gardens, cooing and nutrion
classes.
• Provide $200 million over four years in healthy living tax credits for children and adult recrea-
on programs.
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2. Reforming health care delivery to ensure all Ontarians haveaccess to quality community health services
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We will re-prioritize funding to support doctors and other health professionals for family/community care clinics that are integrated with public health.More than 730,000 Ontarians do not have a family doctor, and of those that
do, almost nine in ten say they are ain too lon for aointments Of
the eleven countries the overnment reularly surveys for comarison ur-
oses, Ontario is dead last in mely access to rimary care
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other health rofessionals - harmacists, nurse raconers, hysiothera-
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and enhance access to health care andin each rofessions scoe of racce to match roven cometencies ena-
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Your Green MPPs will:
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or in cominaon that eand access, aent-centred care and encourae health romoon and innovaon
• Remove all unnecessary restricons on the reistraon of forein-trained health care raconers, hile at the
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We will put communities back in charge of local health care decisions.
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3. Honouring our seniors by improving the care available to Ontario’sageing population
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We will support all long-term care facilities to provide services in compliance with pro-vincial standards.
A study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers found
that Ontario's funding of long-term care
homes falls behind other Canadian provinc-
es and compared unfavourably with the
State of Mississippi, the poorest state in the
United States! Our seniors deserve beer
Long-term care homes are funded by the
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
through a complex system Under the fund-ing system, long-term care homes cannot
transfer money from one area to another,
regardless of need, and money unspent in
any parcular envelope is reclaimed by the
Ministry of Health at the end of the year
This rigid system limits long-term care
homes' ability to be innovave or to respond to uniue or changing circumstances and reuire-
ments The very heavy, detailed and centralized "one-size-fits-all" regulaon also inhibits the ability to
respond to uniue or changing circumstances and discourages innovaon
Green MPPs would reform the funding model for long-term care homes to increase flexibility and to
encourage innovaon and eciencies We would also wor with the Ontario Associaon of on-Profit
Homes and Services for Seniors, the Ontario Long Term Care Associaon and other staeholders to
idenfy and provide appropriate funding levels for long-term care homes
Your Green MPPs will:
• Support a government led capacity planning exercise to develop a comprehensive, long-term strategy for
the long care sector
• Re-examine implementaon of the government's Appropriate Level of Care strategy, parcularly the
crical needs component, to achieve a balance between paents' needs and the ethnic, cultural or reli-
gious maeup of individual homes