NDP Leader Marit Stiles promises to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor or nurse practitioner if her party wins by focusing on building up the team-based primary care model at a cost of $4-billion
The main Ontario party leaders have now laid out their plans on how to get primary care to millions of people without a family doctor.
The Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario College of Family Physicians say 2.5 million Ontarians do not have a family doctor and that number will climb to 4.4 million by next year.In the two days before the writ dropped, then-premiermade more than $7-billion in announcements, including $1.4-billion in new money to beef up primary care in addition to $400-million previously committed to that plan.
Ford appointed Jane Philpott, a former federal Liberal health minister, as head of the provincial primary care action team to implement that plan. “Do you know there are 28,000 people here in the Thunder Bay area that don’t have access to a family doctor?” Crombie said.The Liberals have said they will hire 3,100 doctors to solve the primary care crisis at a cost of $3.1 billion.
Ford also reiterated his promise from last fall to build a massive tunnel for traffic and transit underneath Highway 401. The proposed tunnel would stretch from Mississauga in the west to Markham in the east.
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