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News Release
Funding of Health Care
Resolution Adopted by Medical Reform Group
of Ontario October 14, 1979
WHEREAS the percentage of the Ontario budget spent on health care
continues to decrease,
WHEREAS many existing community projects are being cut, or forced
to close,
WHEREAS there have been massive hospital bed closures which have
not been compensated for by opening more appropriate facilities,
and massive layoffs of hospital staff that have adversely affected
the quality of care,
WHEREAS OHIP premiums constitute a form of regressive taxation,
with lower income citizens paying a higher proportion of their incomes
in premiums,
BE IT RESOLVED THAT
1) The health care cutbacks be reversed.
2) The health care budget be increased yearly to at least keep pace
with inflation.
3) More money be allocated to the important areas of preventive
medicine and community-based services, and this money not come from
cutting other essential services such as education and social services.
4) Until alternate facilities exist, hospital bed cuts be stopped
and wards re-opened to shorten waiting lists for care.
S) The important role of all health workers be recognized and cutbacks
in staffing be reversed.
6) OHIP premiums be abolished and funding for health care come from
progressive forms of taxation.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the MRG pass the above resolution as statements
of principle, and to serve as guidelines for future work in these
areas.
Subject Headings: Abortion
Rights – Community
Health – Community
Health Centres – Drug
Substitution – Epidemiology
– Epidemiology/Community
Medicine – Health
Administration – Health
Care Budgets – Health
Care Cost Containment – Health
Care Costs – Health
Care Delivery – Health
Care Finance & Fund-Raising – Health
Care in Canada – Health
Care in Ontario – Health
Care in the U.K. – Health
Care in the U.S. – Health
Care Myths – Health
Care Reform – Health
Care Resources – Health
Care Services – Health
Care Workers – Health
Clinics – Health
Determinants – Health
Economics – Health
Expenditures – Health
Issues – Health
Policy – Health
Policy/Seniors – Health
Service Organizations – Health/Social
Justice Issues – Health
Statistics – Health/Strategic
Planning – History
– Hospitals
– Labour
Medicine – Medical
Associations – Medical
Costs/Foreign – Medical
Education – Medical
Ethics – Medical
Human Resources – Medical
Personnel – Medical
Research Funding – Medicare
– Medication
Use – Medication
Use/Seniors – NAFTA/Health
– Occupational
Health & Safety – Patients'
Rights – Pharmaceuticals
– Physician
Compensation – Physician
Human Resources – Pro-Choice
Issues – Public
Health – Publications/Health
– Social
Policy – Women's
Health
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