Wayne Gates is calling on the province to get rid of a bill to expand OHIP-covered surgeries and services conducted at private clinics
Niagara Falls MPP Wayne Gates is encouraging the province to scrap Bill 60.
The bill, which was proposed earlier this year, would allow more private clinics to open and conduct surgeries and diagnostic services covered by OHIP.
The province has said the bill will help reduce hospital wait times.
However, Gates says increasing private care would mean more priority for corporate profits.
"You know what it's about?" Gates said at Queens Park today. "It's about the corporations getting the billions of dollars of our healthcare that they've been trying to get since Tommy Douglas brought publicly funded healthcare into our system."
The Ontario Health Coalition is also against the bill, and has launched a provincewide referendum to protest the plan.
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