Ontario Health Minister Deb Mathews has been busy criticizing Canadian Federal Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney. She doesn’t like that his ( and they are his ) new IFH rules leave thousands of Canadian refugee claimants without healthcare insurance. Minister Mathews is upset that this is a “download” of care that will cost MoH coffers.<\/p>\n
We don’t like it either. Thousands of medically uninsured New Canadians hate it. They are the ones who are being physically and mentally harmed by it. And 20% are Children and Youth New to Canada.<\/p>\n
So, Deb Mathews is right. But she is also being quite hypocritical.\u00a0Ms Mathews is busy doing some serious “downloading” of her own.\u00a0For over 10 years Ontario has not behaved any better – maybe worse actually. Ontario has forced hundreds of thousands of Canadian landed immigrants choosing it as their Port of Call to endure a 3 month wait for OHIP.<\/p>\n
She and her Health Ministry quite conveniently “download” healthcare on these new Canadians themselves, and their nurses, doctors and others who are left to try to pick up the pieces . We know. Some of the landed immigrants return home because they cannot pay their hospital bills, leaving their dreams behind and broken forever. Others wrestle with huge bills – like the family of the 15 year old girl we had to admit to hospital in their 3 month wait when schizophrenia struck for the first time. That’s what schizophrenia does.<\/p>\n
OK everyone step back – logs out of eyes, glass houses, throwing stones. As a wise leader once advised us all a long time ago,\u00a0be careful about your righteousness \u00a0and anger Minister. Fix your own house first.<\/p>\n
We are all hypocrites. It’s just a matter of degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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