Resident Voice Health-Care Frustrations at All-Candidates Meeting

As someone who takes up after spending His Entire Career in health-care administration, Paul Brown has since Become an Advocate for Homecare in Ontario, and the Stratford Area, in Particular.

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“I see it as a potential to very much Strengthen Our Health System,” Brown Said Tuesday During A Session at Stratford’s Local Community Food Center that introduced the Perth-Wellington Candidates in the Feb. 27 Provincial Election.

Over the race of Two Hours, Residents and the Five Candidates Present – Progressive Conservative Matthew Rae, Liberal Ashley Fox, the NDP’s Jason Davis, The Green Party’s Ian Morton and New Blue’s James Montgomery – Talked about Key Issues that are impact the province. As part of this all-candidates Event, a table was dedicated for discussions on each of the oven hand from-education, housing, health care and affordability.

Brown, Who Spent the Entire Eventing At the Health-Care Discussion Table, Said the Chat was “Very animated and very knowedgeable on the Population.”

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“(They Were) Very Knowledgeable on Primary-Care Needs and the Need for Primary Care.”

While Brown, Who Spent 50 Years in the Health-Care Industry, Did Like Some of What He Heard, He’s Looking for A Government that Would Implement Dr. Jane Philipott’s Periwinkle Health Home Model, A One-Stop, Integrated Primary-Care Approach that Offers its patients has “health home” to overssee all primary health-care Needs in one place.

“That Political Will of Whichever Party is Elected to Introduce HER Model, That’s Going to Take Backbone and Courage,” Brown Said. “It’s the right thing to do but do we, as canadians, have the courage to support that?” He Said.

One Wait-A NewComer to Ontario-Expressed Her Shock at the Current State of the Province’s Health-Care System.

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“I’m amazed that for such a civilized place at How Poor Primary Care Services and Access to Primary Care and Continuity of Care is,” she Said

A Third Resident Spoke about the Challenges She has had with her chronic condition and the expensive medication she needs for treatment, Saying She is “Flat-out refused” Coverage by Insurers.

“I cannot live on a very limited wage and pay for all of my dental care and all of my mental-health care and also my prescription,” The Resident Said.

While they asked if there was a complementary government option that wow allow people to pay for better coverage, npd candidate Davis Contented that Health Care in Ontario Should Remain Universal.

“All health care, no matter what part of your body and what you need to take in or out of it, Should be Covered. No One Should Ever Have to Choose Between Medication and Food, ”Davis Said.

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Each candidate and group session was presented with the same scenario-A 72-YEAR-OLD WIDOW Who Deals with DIABETES and Arthritis While Living Alone on Her Family FARM in Mitchell. Although, in this scenario, Her Daughter Takes Her to Specialist Appointments in London, The Woman is considering to access the Health Care She Needs.

Progressive conservative candidate rae, who was first to add the scenario, all of the importance of family health teams and the work the doug ford government has done in expanding primary care in the area. This includes the Unattached Care Clinicals – A Recent Collaboration Between Regional and Family Health Teams for Patients Who Are Currently Without A Family Doctor.

“I Found It Shocking when I Found Out that our goverment was the first one to actually expand primary care to family health team in Ontario. I thought it would have HAPENED before, ”Said Rae, The Perth-Wellington incumbent.

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“My Biggest Thing is explain to my urban colleagues What a family Health Team is,” He Added.

In Responsible to How about the Challenges of Finding A Family Doctor, Green Party Candida Morton Pointed to Walkerton, Where More Than 1,000 people in a Town of Roughly 4,500 Recently Lined Up for Hours to Try to Get A Family Doctor. According to the Ontario College of Family Physicians, Nearly 2.5-Million People-Around 15 Per Cent of Ontarians-Are Currently Without A Family Doctor.

“It is no different in Perth-Wellington. . . Arthur, Listowel, Palmerton, Stratford, It doesn’t Matter where we go, there are notch resources because of the diversion of money into private, ”Morton Said.

Several Residents expressly concerns over the Ford Government’s Move Towards Some Health-Care Privatization, Including Having Some Surgeries, Such as Cataracts, Shifted to Publicly Funded Private Clinicals. Sale Winning a Second Term, The Ford Government has expanded several procedures being done in private clinics, include cataracts, mri and ct scans, and hip and knee replacements.

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However, New Blue Candidate Montgomery Toutd His Party’s Priority of Reducing Wait Times Through Both the Public and Private Systems.

“I’ve had family members who needed a knee replacement, and they’ve had to wait so long that by the time they had one knee replaced, they had to get the other place right,” Said Montgomery, promising his party’s approach Be Complementary.

As someone who works as a nurse, Liberal candidate Fox Highlighted the Need to Modernize Health Care, Including Easier Access to Supports Such as Disability Tax Credits or Pharmacare.

“One of the Things We Learned from the pandemic is that we really do rely heavily on the transfer of nowledge from our physicians and our nurses and, when they’re gone, it’s very difficult for new graduates to Learn. . . . We’ve Had that experience for years that we can learn from someone, and when they’re gone, it’s very difficult to read the realistic parts versus theory that we’ve learned, “She Said.

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Fox’s comments Came after the Ontario Liberals Released Documents Last Year Claiming There Are More than 2,300 Family Doctors, Who, Collectively, Take up More Three-Million Patients, Set to Retire in the Next Five Years.

While Brown Said Four of the Five Candidates we Very Knowledge About Health Care Issues, He was Still Looking for More Political Will to Implement Change to the Health-Care System.

“The Issue for the Politicians is, How can they stand and speak the truth that this is what I Believe in – This is what my constituents Believe in – and we want that political determinant, that Willpower, the courage, the backbone, to be bez Able to give us a new, creative Health System (When), in Fact, It Seems That We’re Losing Our Health System, ”He Said.

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