In addition, the Coalition reports the Ford government has:

• Imposed real dollar cuts on public hospitals, pushing them into service closures and deficits, while funding for-profit hospitals and clinics with increases up to and over 300%. Ontario funds its public hospitals at the lowest rate of all provinces.
• Funded private for-profit hospitals at double the rate per surgery than it funds public hospitals.
• Funded private for-profit ophthalmology clinics across Ontario at 21% - 56% more for each cataract surgery.
• Refused to take action on the for-profit staffing agencies that are charging up to three times more than public hospitals for staff, having escalated their prices by more than 70% since Ford took office, while imposing wage caps and real dollar cuts on staff in public hospitals.
• Chronically underspent the health care budget, shunting billions to contingency fund and budget surplus, while leaving hospitals in unprecedented crisis.

“Hundreds of millions