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Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers

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  1. 29 September 2026, 20:50 UTC · discovery

    Ontario paid for-profit clinics $4.1 billion as wait times rose, report says

    Ontario’s funding of for-profit surgical and medical imaging (MRI) services is increasing wait time and threatening public health care, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). In Not…