Canadian Union of Public Employees Raising Concerns About Private Health Care

Canadian Union of Public Employees raising concerns about private health care

Most Ontarians want the government to support and improve single-payer health care, according to a new poll released by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in conjunction with Nanos Research.

Private health-care clinics leading to inequality of access, CUPE says

Canadian Union of Public Employees calls for the Ontario government to stop plans to expand funding of private, for-profit surgery clinics.

Private health-care clinics leading to inequality of access, CUPE says - Ontario Health Coalition

(June 16, 2025) By: Elliot Ferguson, The Kingston Whig Standard Privatization of cataract surgery has resulted in uneven access to the procedure and increased its cost, the Canadian Union of Public Employees says. Five years of increased government funding of private health care has increased the inequality of access for cataract surgery, according to Canada’s largest public sector union. And the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ Ontario Counc…

Union says healthcare privatization has resulted in longer wait times, unequal access and public opposition

A new report by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) suggests that privatizing hospital services continues to result in longer wait times and unequal access based on wealth. At a news conference in Belleville Monday, OCHU-CUPE representatives noted that despite provincial funding to enable the privatization of cataract surgeries over the past five years, the number of surgeries performed on time has decreased from 72 per cent in…

Five years into Ford government’s privatization of hospital services: longer wait-times, unequal access, and public opposition | OCHU * CUPE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Five years into Ford government’s privatization of hospital services: longer wait-times, unequal access, and public opposition Kingston, ON – The Ford government’s signature policy initiative of privatizing hospital services has resulted in longer wait-times