HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1974-08-29, Page 5looks like we will be
paying an extra $300 million
this year for hospital services.
Hospitals across the Province
have recently completed wage
settlements with nurses and
other hospital workers which
will cost about $400 to $500
million extra per year accor-
ding to the Ontario Hospital
Association,
When the financial estimates
for the Ministry of Health were
introduced in April, the figure
required for operations of
hospitals was about $1.2
billion. Since the Government
operates on a fiscal year which
starts April 1 and ends March
31, it will not have to ask for
the whole $400" to $500
as our fiscal year is already
one.third over.
I predict that when the
Legislature resumes sitting in
the Fall, Health Minister
Frank Miller will have to ask
for about $300 million in sup-
plementary estimates in order
to pay for all the recent wage
settlements.
A couple of years ago, former
Health Minister Richard Potter
decided to do something about
the high .cost of hospitals. He
instructed hospitals to close
down beds and cut back ser-
vices. This measure was sup-
posed to save us some money,
but I have yet to see any
savings. Instead the health bill
just gets larger and larger every
year.
At the time of the cutbacks,
Authority
receives
grant
The Honourable Leo Bernier,
minister of natural resources,
announces the approval of a
provincial grant in the amount
of $8,250 to the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority
to carry out a preliminary
engineering study of ,the
Bluevale Dam on the Little
Maitland River at Bluevale.
At present, the dam and
reservoir provides recreation
such as swimming, boating and
fishing in the Conservation
Area. The dam is in a state of
disrepair.
The study will include an
assessment of the structural
condition, of the dam, recom-
mendations for remedial
measures and cost estimates for
the repair.
All member municipalities
have been designated as
benefitting and will be levied
the Authority's share of the
cost.
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CLINTON NEW-RECORD, .THIURSDAY, .001.70VOT 29, 1974-6
some labour problems in
hospitals so rather than dealing
with them, they appointed
Committee to look into the
problems back in January. The
Committee still has not repor-
ted and all the wage set-
tlements are long since passed.
I wonder what the cost will
be to the taxpayer for the Com-
mittee whose recommendations
will now seem after the fact?
If the health bill continues to
increase at the rate it is presen-
tly increasing, it will bankrupt
the Province by the year 2,000.
This is becoming obvious when
just 4 months after the start of
the fiscal year the Government
is already $300 million short,
* * *
Did you know that the target
date for total conversion to the
metric system is 1980? The
Federal Government first star-
ted moving in that direction in
1970 after the publication of
the "White Paper on Metric
Conversion in Canada".
Although this is Federal
responsibility, it will require
the co-operation of all levels of
Government, On highways
around Ontario
y already see the beginnings
can
niingsof
conversion as some road signs
show distances in kilometers,
*
The Provincial Liberal
Caucus held a Thinkers Con-
ference in Hamilton last
weekend where ideas were
discussed which could form
Liberal policy for the upcoming
election, There were twenty
papers published ranging from
Women's Rights to Agriculture.
Experts in various fields of in-
terest were present as resource
people and participated in the
various discussions. With an
election probably no more than
a year away, the Party is
gearing up for a good fight,
* * *
A serious shortage of housing
is developing very rapidly in
Ontario, The latest Cent$1
Mortgage and Housing Cor-
poration (CMHC) figures show
that the number of loans from
approved lenders for the first
seven menthe. in 1974 was
9,291, this is down from 26,902
for the same period last year,
The total number of ClVIIFIC
loans for the first seven months
in 1974 was 14,660 - this is
down from 32,046 for the same
period last year, which is more
than a 50 percent drop in one
year,
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Dr. Potter said we would be
moving away from expensive
treatment in hospitals
wherever possible, and toward
treatment in less expensive ex-
tended care facilities such as
nursing homes. Dr. Potter im-
posed a freeze on capital con-
struction of hospitals, he gran-
ted only a 5 percent increase to
the operating budgets of
hospitals and closed down
1,500 active-treatment beds.
Obviously these measures
were unsuccessful in keeping
down the cost of what Dr. Pot-
ter described as a "Franken-
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health bill. There has never
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the health care delivery system.
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before the egg. The Govern-
ment knew several months ago
that there were going to be
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