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Health Minister Christine Elliott made the best of a difficult situation Monday when she said Premier Doug Ford’s pledge to end hallway medicine in Ontario within a year was Ford “expressing the wishes that we all have.”
Except that’s not what the premier said at the wind-up to the annual premiers’ meeting in Saskatoon last week.
He said: “When we got elected, there were people in hallways across our province waiting to see a doctor for five hours. As we stand right now, we’re down to 1,000 patients in the hallways, but I can assure the people of Ontario, over the next year, we won’t have anyone in the hallways there.”
For Elliott to walk that absolute declaration back to Ford expressing a “wish”, reminds us of former Ontario Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne explaining her broken election promise to reduce auto insurance rates by 15% as a “stretch goal”.
The problem of hallway medicine has existed for decades. The solutions aren’t simple.
The Ford government knows this from a report earlier this year by Dr. Rueben Devlin, chair of the premier’s council on improving health care and ending hallway medicine.
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