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EH? it's simply common sense
Welcome to our website where we try and look at things sensibly, which means we will usually be at odds with the established order. As a result this website is not going to be popular with big government and well paid bureaucrats, the empire builders who live and work in a comfortable cocoon while the most vulnerable members of society struggle to survive. Simple things that may seem insignificant to most people are critically important to the health and well-being of our less fortunate citizens.
Which brings us to the topic of healthcare service cuts in Ontario. From a purely financial point of view service reductions are understandable, we are struggling with a bad economy which means there is less money to go round and we all need to share the pain. It might make sound financial sense and is something everyone can understand, but is healthcare not about people?
Why is our national healthcare system in such a deep crisis that the CMA just released a report calling for major change? We have our opinions of course, and are arrogant enough to believe we have some of the answers. We even think we have some good ideas to fix the problem in Ontario, but telling an entrenched MOHLTC bureaucracy we have a better idea is the ultimate arrogance!
Does anybody other than those who work for the MOHLTC really believe that the people who created the problem, the people who keep trying to fix it using techniques that have never worked in the past, the people with administrative jobs that are immune to cuts, are the experts who should be trusted with our health?
Does anyone else think they can be trusted to look after our interests? NOT ME!!!!! What about you? Tell us what you think, tell us about your experiences. Have the CCAC cuts had an impact on your life?
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Yes, the CCAC tried to change things for me too. I see a nurse once a month and they wanted me to start taking a bus to their office to get the procedure done.
I’m already paying $194.75 per month for an Access Bus; something that is next to impossible to do when your sole source of income is ODSP, so I dug in my heels and said I refuse.
I said it is not my job to absorb the extra costs of coming to you just because the CCAC is running into a budgetary shortfall.
If the province can afford to pay, (I think it is),$26 million dollars to manage the LHIN’s, they can afford to let me keep the $4.50 per 2-way trip to their office to get a once monthly health care procedure done. (here is the link to the Province’s Public accounts: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/paccts/2009/
Thankfully they listened to my logic and the nurse will continue to come to my home.
Comment by Louise - August 6, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
Yes, I have a husband who is in Renal Failure and has a life threatening disease and the CCAC came to assess him and said that they dont think I will need the rental bath bench any longer since he is palliative they want to return it, and they wont bother sending any PSW’s out to try to bath or shower him, his hair has not been washed for 3 weeks. I said no, I want him showered once a week even if he gets put in a wheelchair permanently they can still do it.
I was told there were no more hours available for that, nor any hours available for respite, they are all gone in this new budget.
Veterans Affairs has offered me 1 hour a week for respite, and I have had 3 back injuries as a nurse and with my husband’s stroke in 2009, his left side is still weakened and he can not get up out of bed or a chair by himself, the VAC said that there are many soldiers on the rolls now and the money has to go around. I am getting it from every corner , but we will continue to dig in our heels and stand our ground for care of all kinds.
Judith
Comment by Judith - August 7, 2010 @ 12:38 am
In caring for a relative affected by a stroke I found the CCAC to be cumbersome, time-consuming, insulting and useless!
I live in the country west of Hamilton centre. Workers sent from Grimsby and Stoney Creek got lost!! and local health care personnel were sent to the far EAST end of the city.
Hopeless management. Has anything changed?
Eva
Comment by Eva Marsh - August 9, 2010 @ 11:11 am