Joyce Savoline - Your Burlington MPP

NEWS:

 

Today, Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak and the PC Caucus announced that the Party’s top funding priority will be health care.  The PC Caucus is serious about a plan that will bring change that puts patients at the very centre of health care.  A Hudak government will increase annual investments in health care to a total of nearly $6.1 billion by the end of the first term.  This will be accomplished by moving funds out of waste and administration and into frontline care for people.

 

An Ontario PC government’s health care priorities will include:

• Introducing a rigorous system of patient satisfaction and health outcome measures
• Improving health care for Ontario seniors with 40,000 new and renovated long-term care beds
• Increasing investments in home care, and giving families more control over services; and
• Bringing more doctors to the communities that need them.  Encouraging doctors, nurses, and physician assistants to work collaboratively in under-serviced areas to meet patients’ needs, and increasing residency placements for medical students from Ontario who have training outside Canada and want to return home to practice
• Getting rid of unnecessary administration, including LHINs, and reinvesting that funding into care for patients.

                                                                                                                                                                                              

QUOTES

 

“I know how important our health services truly are.  I get it.  I’ve been there.  That’s because I have a young daughter and parents who are getting older.  My family needs high-quality, reliable health care services – just like all of us do.”

-Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader

 

“Today’s announcement is good news for both a growing population of seniors and the growing number of young families in Burlington.  This will go a long way to ensuring that the appropriate health care is available when needed.” 

- Joyce Savoline, MPP Burlington

 

QUICK FACTS:

 

·          Under Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals, over a billion taxpayer dollars have been wasted in eHealth, LHINs, administration and failed projects that could have been used for patient care.

 

·          Tim Hudak’s health care plan will change the focus of the system to put money where it belongs: on the patient.

 

·          Health funding under a Tim Hudak government will be $6.1 billion more per year in the final year of its mandate than it is today.

 

 

CONTACT:  Joyce Savoline | 416-325-5362 |