Privatized P3 Hospitals & Projects Cost $8 Billion More
Ontario Auditor General's Report Vindicates More than 10-Years of Work by Health Coalition: Government Must Stop P3 Privatization Now
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 12/09/14 -- All justifications are now stripped away. Ontario''s government must stop the P3 privatization of public infrastructure projects including hospitals, and put the billions in savings that result towards needed care and services. In a shocking revelation today Ontario''s Auditor General found $8 billion in higher costs due to the P3 privatization of Ontario''s hospitals and other public infrastructure, as follows:
It has been a long road and it has taken us - a citizens'' group - a Herculean effort, but Ontario''s Auditor General finally audited the province''s privatized P3 projects, something for which the Ontario Health Coalition has called for years. We have done province-wide tours, issued repeated reports, analysed costs, asked economists'' to speak out, pointed out the shortfalls in the so-called "value-for-money" reports from the government, and even went so far as to hold city-wide referendums in seven cities across Ontario. In total more than 91,700 people voted in these volunteer-held referendums. More than 98% voted against P3 privatization of their local hospitals.
The Health Coalition has been deeply concerned that the high costs of the privatized P3s would siphon public money away from health care budgets to multinational financiers and consortia, leading to health care cuts and privatization. This is exactly what has happened in Ontario.
"Ontario''s government is closing hospitals and throwing people off of home care, saying they cannot afford it," said Ross Sutherland, R.N., M.A., chair of the Ontario Health Coalition. "At the same time, they are paying billions to multinational private financial corporations in higher costs than necessary."
"The very worst hospital cuts in Ontario have happened and continue to happen in communities that have been saddled with the extraordinary costs of privatized P3 hospitals," noted Natalie Mehra, OHC director. "In North Bay, 60 hospital beds are being cut in the brand new P3 hospital. In Niagara, where a new P3 hospital has been built costing more than a billion dollars, entire hospitals in four communities are under threat of total closure. While the multinational consortia rake in their money, people in these communities are losing needed care services."
To put it in context, if the $8 billion in higher costs resulting from P3 privatization were spent on actual public health care services rather than multinational for-profit financial companies and their consortia, Ontarians would have:
Ontario''s entire provincial health care budget is approximately $50 billion.
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Natalie Mehra
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Ross Sutherland
613-532-7846 (c)
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