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The release of Ontario’s budget last week prompted comment from the president of the Ontario Medical Association, Dr. Ved Tandan, that the government’s policy of taking from the health care system to balance its budget is putting the healthcare system in jeopardy. Population growth and unmet needs for family doctors and other services are being ignored, he says. This is certainly an important and complex issue. That said, budgeting requires a careful look at unnecessary spending to determine where cuts can be made.

http://otlablog.com/cut-the-fat/

The time immediately following your car accident can me the most difficult time; and the most important time in terms of getting your case on to the right start.

http://www.torontoinjurylawyerblog.com/2015/04/what-to-do-immediately-following-your-car-accident-ontario-the-blitz.html#more-672

Gisele Doyon narrowly escaped death this winter when her car hit a patch of ice near Sault Ste. Marie and slid across the highway — right into the path of an oncoming transport truck.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/30/injured-woman-cheers-auditor-generals-winter-road-maintenance-report

TORONTO — Ontario’s minister of community and social services can’t say whether the government will have to shell out more money to fix a support payment system that has already cost the province an additional $29 million.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ontario-may-need-to-spend-more-to-fix-faulty-social-assistance-program-1.2353911

The recently announced auto insurance reforms included in the 2015 Ontario Budget will again reduce accident benefits as part of the government’s efforts to reduce premiums in Ontario.  The government insists that benefits available are still generous.  I decided to compare the accident benefits available prior to the OMPP (Schedule C) under tort and the OMPP accident benefits with the new proposed limits announced in the Budget.  I used the Bank of Canada inflation calculator to convert past benefits into 2015 dollars.

http://williehandler.blogspot.ca/

FAIR Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform calls for a moratorium on the proposed auto insurance changes in the 2015 budget

http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=34200

The provincial system for disability assistance for those who require some assistance (either permanent or temporary) has many, many deceitful regulations.

In 2009, the Wesley Urban Ministry group produced a study called “No Community Stands Alone” and one sad reality from that study is adults end up on assistance for a variety of reasons, including a sudden illness, car accident or work injury for which there is no coverage.

http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/5593153-people-with-disabilities-deceived/

Ontario saved millions but put lives in jeopardy by contracting out highway snow clearing and other winter road maintenance with poor oversight, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk says in a damning new report.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/29/ontarios-winter-roads-are-less-safe-since-privatization-auditor.html

Despite “a growing chorus of calls” for Canada to implement a single-payer, government-run prescription drug plan, researchers at the Fraser Institute have found that such a system may actually prove detrimental to low-income Canadians nationwide.

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/singlepayer-pharmacare-not-ideal-for-lowincome-access-to-drugs-fraser-institute-190903.aspx