Hazardous Hudak: Toronto - Tim Hudak's PCs will have to cut health care in order to make up for the $14 billion in unfunded promises and tax cuts in their election platform.
Tim Hudak was there when Mike Harris vowed not to cut health care. But together, they didn’t just cut – they took out an axe.
• 28 hospitals closed
• Thousands of nurses fired
• Pregnant women sent to Buffalo to give birth because there were no beds in Ontario
• Emergency Rooms sending ambulances further away because they couldn't handle more patients
• Cancelled monitoring ER Redirect hours because they didn’t want the public to know just how bad it was
• Capped home care hours and fired local health care champions who stood in the way
• Stopped inspecting long term care homes
• Removed standard for at least one bath per week for residents of long term care homes
• Left over 1 million Ontarians without a family doctor
• Ushered in private, for profit clinics to fill the void for MRIs and CT scans
• Refused to screen babies for more than 2 diseases at birth
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