Andrew Longhurst @alonghurst.bsky.social

I plan to wind down use of this platform—a platform owned by a dangerous, billionaire fascist working hard to erode democracy globally Please join me over at Bluesky for health policy analysis and other commentary: bsky.app/profile/alongh…

Ontario govt pushes more patients to privately owned surgical clinics- instead of tapping underused OR capacity in hospitals. Report showed 1/3 of ORs are not in regular use because of staffing and funding issues. policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/… ctvnews.ca/toronto/politi…

When our children ask what we did as Gaza was systematically destroyed and its children killed, what will we say? It is our generation’s moral test. Canada is failing it. #Opinion trib.al/tCZ5vgi

"...waits are about to get worse. But rather than focus limited resources on the public system, #Ontario plans to more than double the funding for private surgical and diagnostic facilities." @a_longhurst @ccpa #onpoli thestar.com/opinion/contri…

As Ontario pumps millions into private health care, public health will continue to suffer. Rather than focus limited resources on the public system, Ontario plans to more than double the funding for private surgical and diagnostic facilities. #Opinion trib.al/vX2R1KP

A new Statscan analysis: for-profit LTC facilities provided residents with 50 fewer minutes of total direct care in 2019 and 34 fewer minutes of total direct care in 2020, compared with public LTC facilities. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-…

Mass starvation is spreading in Gaza. Our colleagues and the people we serve are wasting away. It is time for governments to take decisive action and save lives: msf.org/mass-starvatio…

Join us to hear from a leading activist, doctor and scholar on fighting health care privatisation-next Tuesday, July 15, at noon #cdnpol @a_longhurst @OntarioHealthC @CdnDrs4Medicare @NatalieMehra1 healthcoalition.ca/webinar-stoppi…

The @OntarioHealthC is leading the way for patients who want to express their disapproval of "upselling" and being nudged into private clinics that charge. You can complain, too. #cdnpoli healthcoalition.ca/time-to-raise-…

NEW: $6,000 per surgery, and the ability to offer patients "uninsured upgrades." That's part of the package private health facilities will receive if they're greenlit by the Ford government this summer. Critics are calling for more patient protection. #onpoli

Before a paramedic, fired by York Region for posting against genocide in Gaza, received a termination letter, her firing was tweeted by a member of the public. This stunning violation of the worker’s privacy rights lays bare the political nature of this discharge. Reinstate her.

Hospital OR's sit idle but Ontario wants surgeries in private clinics - some or most with a for-profit approach. In Alberta this cost taxpayers more and increased wait times for other surgeries. This negatively impact our public hospitals. By @egpayne with @a_longhurst…

I shared my deep concerns about this policy direction The Alberta experience shows that most wait times increased as funding & workforce has been diverted to private centres Hospitals are starved of the workforce & funding needed to reduce wait times, esp complex surgeries

RECORD PRIVATIZATION––Longhurst said $ offered to surgical clinics are “very good rates, considering they'll be the lowest acuity patients with no inpatient stays & minimal/no rehab needs. Facilities will be able to build a very healthy profit margin.” ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario-s…

CUPE joins the urgent call to @MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP: Canada must act to stop the genocide in Gaza and end the war crimes and crimes against humanity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

As the Ontario government funnels $280 million into investor-owned facilities, this is the future The Ontario government is building a two-tier system — just as the Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec governments are doing

“The use of for-profit staffing agencies [in #Ontario] is part of a vicious cycle that hollows out the public-sector workforce, thereby increasing hospitals’ dependence on private agencies,” said @ccpa report author @a_longhurst midnorthmonitor.com/news/local-new…

Tragic. I would give the public health communications from the Ontario government & CMHO a failing grade for addressing the severity of this public health crisis

Ontario is more than doubling funding to private surgical and diagnostic facilities. Giving the public's money to investors and profiteers - and hiding it behind Bill 60 - isn't taught in medical school as a way to find and cure disease. By @DrGorfinkel @a_longhurst…

CBC’s The National coverage of my new @CCPA_Ont report on the crisis facing Ontario hospital finances and growth of costly for-profit staffing youtu.be/jWNVe58jQ5k

Almost 70 per cent of Canadians surveyed want child vaccines to be mandatory: poll ctvnews.ca/health/article…