CLEANING UP WYNNE'S MESS

   Toronto Sun:  Just weeks remain until Ontario’s provincial election when patients can vote in a new government that is willing to engage with frontline doctors and nurses to address the worst health-care crisis in Ontario’s history. It’s a crisis created by years of neglect, mismanagement and deep frontline cuts by Premier Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal government.
    Ontario’s doctors are now into their fifth year without a contract and enduring a seventh year of cuts to their frontline patient care. This is unprecedented in Canada.
    Just months after winning the 2014 election, Wynne’s government stopped negotiating with physicians and started to unilaterally cut. Since 2015, this has amounted to more than $4-billion in reckless cuts to the frontline care that doctors provide to 14 million patients. These cuts are ongoing, averaging nearly $100-million monthly and have resulted in clinic closures, 1 million patients going without family doctors, waiting lists for some specialties exploding to beyond three years, emergency room gridlock and operating room closures.