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QUESTIONS,
QUESTIONS
Elected
officials have the power to put Ontario on the path to making primary
health care accessible to all. Find out where your local candidates stand
on the issue, and what they will do to help tackle health-service problems
and concerns.
Here
are a few things to ask:
- Do
you agree that access to health care should be based on need rather
than ability to pay? If so, will you fight against introduction of a
two-tier health-care system with private-for-profit delivery of services?
- Do
you agree that Ontario needs to invest more in disease prevention and
health promotion? Will you support funding for immunization strategies,
anti-smoking plans, and obesity-reduction policies?
- In
his report, Roy Romanow acknowledged community health centres to be
an exemplary model for primary health-care reform and advocated their
expansion. Do you support these findings and recommendations? If not,
why not?
- Will
you support more community health centres in Ottawa and increased funding
for existing community health centres to enable them to deliver cost-effective
health-care services?
- In
February 2003, the federal government added an immediate $1 billion
to improve the health system, including increased access to primary
health care. Will you fight to ensure that these additional funds go
to improve the accessibility of primary health-care services and to
increase the number and capacity of CHCs?
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