Coalition of Ontario Doctors Letter to OMA Board of Directors – August 24, 2016
The Coalition notes the OMA’s August 22 acknowledgment of membership’s deep seated dissatisfaction with the manner in which the tentative PSA was negotiated, disclosed and pressed on membership with a disrespectful communications campaign funded with members’ resources. We note that the cost to membership of the OMA’s “Yes” campaign has yet to be disclosed.
Coalition of Ontario Doctors: Victory for Doctors and Patients
Ontario doctors stood up for themselves and rejected a deeply flawed PSA, one that was vague, cut funding, and threatened our independence.
CBC: Ontario doctors vote to reject tentative physician services agreement
Four-year deal would have increased $11.5-billion physician services budget by 2.5 per cent a year
Terence Corcoran (National Post): Ontario’s minister of monopoly
This coming Sunday, Ontario’s doctors will meet and vote on a proposed compensation agreement between their ersatz union, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Wynne Liberal government. It is shaping up as one of the most important events in the modern history of health care in the province.
Toronto Star: Doctors accuse OMA of pressing members to vote for deal
Doctors opposed to tentative OMA deal with government step up their fight ahead of Sunday’s vote.
National Post: Terence Corcoran: Judge rules OMA ‘sneaky’ in bid to have doctors ratify deal with province
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice invalidated the OMA proxy form, concluding it needed to be re-issued with fairer and more balanced language.
Coalition of Ontario Doctors Communiqué
Physician Coalition Petition Forces OMA to Cancel PSA Voting Referendum
OAC President on CTV News Toronto re: TPSA
Earlier today, OAC President Dr. Jim Swan was interviewed as part of a CTV News Toronto story regarding the growing opposition to the TPSA.
Ontario Cardiologists Call on Auditor General of Ontario to Investigate Misuse of Public Resources
Today, the Ontario Association of Cardiologists (OAC) issued an open letter to Ms. Bonnie Lysyk, Auditor General of Ontario, calling on her to investigate the provincial government’s spending in cardiac care and report on what the association considers to be a serious misuse of public resources.
Open Letter to Auditor General of Ontario
Re: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Misuse of Public Resources
2016 Budget Fails to Address Ontario’s #1 Killer: Heart Disease
The 2016 Ontario Budget, tabled in the Ontario Legislature by Finance Minister Charles Sousa today, revealed that the Wynne government has no plan to fight Ontario’s #1 killer: heart disease.
OAC Board member Dr. Murray Matangi speaks out on government cuts
Psychiatrist Janet McCulloch and opthamologist Don Smallman are among the Kingston-area doctors raising alarm over cuts to fees paid to physicians. (Elliot Ferguson/The Whig-Standard)
Ontario’s Cardiac Care Infrastructure Collapsing Due to Government Budget Cuts
Outpatient-based cardiac care in Ontario is on the brink of collapse due to drastic and ill-considered budget cuts by the Wynne government. These cuts, imposed unilaterally by the Wynne government in February, April and October without input from the Ontario Association of Cardiologists (OAC), have begun to damage the infrastructure that supports access to outpatient cardiac care in Ontario. This will risk lives, put further pressure on hospital emergency rooms and drive up costs, while making access to care more difficult for Ontario’s cardiac patients.
OAC President Quoted in The Medical Post
On January 20, The Medical Post, a subscription based magazine published an article on the prospect of the Ontario government publishing OHIP billing data in Ontario. This issue had been raised previously by The Toronto Star in December 2014. OAC President, Dr. Jim Swan, sounds a cautionary note advising that without explanatory wording to help the public better understand the numbers, the publishing of gross billing data would not be very helpful.