Ontario has a serious problem: health care consumes $40.4 billion of the province's $96-billion budget. Its 157 hospitals receive $18.4 billion.Now, the Toronto "Red" Star has to give "Furious George" Smitherman the obligatory socialist fist-bump... but curiously, they leave a few things out of their reportage.
Despite massive spending, the system is overburdened with wait lists, emergency rooms clogged with old people and "bed blockers" – seniors stuck in hospital, at a cost of $200 million a year, because home care is inadequate and nursing homes are full.
Funny how that works.
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