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News Release
Cuts in public health budget are
short-sighted and counter-productive
April 3, 1995
To:
Mayor Barbara Hall and the Executive Committee
Toronto City Hall
100 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2
Dear Mayor Hall, members of the Executive Committee:
We understand that the Toronto City Council is considering major
cuts to the Department of Public Health. These cuts are likely to
mean reductions in dental services for welfare recipients, decreased
pest control services, decreased tuberculosis prevention, and cuts
in nutrition services, as well as reductions in other services.
As a physicians' group, the Medical Reform Group is very concerned
about the adverse effects on the health of Torontonians which will
result from these cuts. We believe that these public health services
are essential services and that the proposed cuts are extremely
retrogressive. Not only do the proposed cuts ignore the human suffering
that will result from the increased burden of illness, visited largely
on the disadvantaged, but they are fiscally short-sighted. Decreased
health of Canadians reduces productivity, and places additional
burdens on the publicly financed health care system. By saving money
now, we are ensuring that there will be increased and unnecessary
costs in the future.
We therefore express our strong opposition to cuts in the budget
of the Department of Public Health, and urge you to reconsider this
proposal.
Medical Reform Group of Ontario
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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