OHIP
43ideas | - Charge user fees for healthcare services (10 ideas)
- Provide dental coverage under OHIP (8 ideas)
- Provide vision care coverage under OHIP (3 ideas)
- Replace red and white health cards (2 ideas)
- Cover dentures for low income under OHIP
- Provide dental and healthcare coverage to students
- Cover post vision loss rehabilitation under OHIP
- Cut out unnecessary billing by ENTs for audiology exams funded by OHIP
- Cover dental and vision care under OHIP
- Cover physiotherapy under OHIP
- Cover hearing tests under OHIP
- Expand pregnancy care offerings
- Provide better services for individuals with rare diseases and their families
- Base doctors' appointments on a time allotment, not a maximum number of issues
- Inform patients of their cost to OHIP
- Charge nominal fees for non-essential medical tests
- Reduce costs by clarifying what procedures are medically necessary
- Fully fund fertility treatments, testing and medications
- Negotiate reciprocal health coverage agreements with other countries
- Allow repatriated Canadians to buy health coverage
- Only provide healthcare coverage to educated people
- Cover psychologists' services under OHIP
- Eliminate funding for sex reassignment surgery
- Eliminate funding for In-Vitro Fertilization
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Medical professionals
31ideas | - Restore doctors' fees to previous levels (5 ideas)
- Increase compensation for primary healthcare providers (4 ideas)
- Increase pay for nurses (3 ideas)
- Increase the scope of care for pharmacists (2 ideas)
- Make doctors an essential service (2 ideas)
- Reduce the number of nurses working overtime at increased pay rates
- Provide greater support to international medical graduates
- Replace fees for services with a global payment system
- Increase doctors' involvement in pain management
- Scrap the National Nursing Assessment Service for internationally educated nurses
- Allow doctors to negotiate fees with binding arbitration
- Increase the scope of care for paramedics
- Hire more nursing staff and lower wait times
- Reduce the need for patients with stable chronic illness to visit doctors for followups
- Ban kickbacks for doctors from pharmaceutical companies
- Hire staff in hospitals with expert knowledge of government healthcare support programs
- Compensate surgeons based on time spent performing a procedure
- Provide pay equity for dietitians in primary care
- Increase the scope of care for nurses
- Replace unskilled work done by nurses with lower cost healthcare aides
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Social assistance
25ideas | - Increase social assistance rates (5 ideas)
- Introduce stronger controls to social assistance programs (4 ideas)
- Tie social assistance rates to the local cost of living (2 ideas)
- Distribute social assistance payments via credit or debit card (2 ideas)
- Replace printed and mailed ODSP statements with email
- Increase taxes on high cost unemployed once they are employed
- Reimburse people who don't use unemployment benefits
- Introduce work programs for people on social assistance
- Increase supervision of welfare recipients
- Require Ontario Works recipients to have vasectomies
- Require social assistance recipients to perform volunteer work
- Provide community development training to all social services workers and agencies
- Implement the recommendations of the Social Assistance Review and increase rates
- Incentivize businesses to employ recipients of social assistance
- Limit Ontario Works benefits to 3 years
- Extend the special diet allowance to people with rare disorders
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Healthcare system
24ideas | - Reduce the size and cost of the healthcare bureaucracy (4 ideas)
- Ensure health records are available throughout the healthcare system (2 ideas)
- Eliminate LHINs and CCACs (2 ideas)
- Expand services available from CCACs
- Consult with the healthcare community to find long term savings opportunities
- Reduce costs by using alternatives to nurses at the front-end
- Allow community support agencies to directly hire professional staff
- Ensure equal access to healthcare services in rural areas
- Allow greater access to private healthcare services
- Modernize the healthcare system
- Allow privatization of some healthcare services
- Eliminate the need for physician referrals to specialists
- Eliminate doctors' notes for sick workers
- Set maximum patient loads for PSWs in retirement homes
- Reclassify Burlington as part of LHIN 6 rather than LHIN 4
- Ensure CCACs hire only regulated staff for providing home care
- Centralize public health agencies
- Remove the LHINs
- Involve stakeholders in rewriting healthcare legislation
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Mental health
23ideas | - Increase funding for mental health services (13 ideas)
- Invest in mental health services for children and youth
- Develop a postpartum mood disorder strategy for Ontario
- Provide multilingual mental health services
- Fund services of psychologists and social workers
- Adopt the Mental Health Strategy for Canada
- Recognize Generalized Anxiety Disorder as a severe disability, eligible for ODSP
- Increase access to psychologists' services in Ontario
- Increase access to psychiatric services in Ontario
- Provide better access to mental health services
- Treat mental illness as a medical, not a justice issue in Northern Ontario
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Healthy living
19ideas | - Increase funding for healthy living and disease prevention (3 ideas)
- Provide funding for health promotion (2 ideas)
- Create food producing gardens in urban communities
- Provide funding for lap band surgery to eliminate morbid obesity
- Provide a healthy living tax credit for sufferers of chronic illness
- Tackle obesity by lowering costs of gym memberships
- Provide better access to nutritionists and dieticians
- Fund healthy lifestyle alternatives to bariatric surgery for obese Ontarians
- Increase awareness of impacts of obesity and educate about healthy living
- Increase awareness and funding for prevention of chronic lyme disease
- Create incentives for healthy living, and apply a tax to unhealthy food
- Create a tax credit for sex toys
- Address the social determinants of health to reduce strain on the healthcare system
- Tie health insurance costs to various monitored metrics of personal health
- Create tax credits for health and wellness
- Provide financial incentives to encourage weight loss
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Funding
17ideas | - Increase healthcare funding (7 ideas)
- Increase funding for health care (3 ideas)
- Increase funding for Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics (2 ideas)
- Increase funding for treatment of maternal perinatal mood disorders
- Create an independent body to decide healthcare funding
- Increase funding to CCACs, home care, and nurses
- Reduce healthcare costs by implementing other jurisdictions' methods
- Implement a healthcare tax
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Disability and developmental services
15ideas | - Increase ODSP benefits (4 ideas)
- Do not deduct spousal earnings from ODSP benefits (2 ideas)
- Increase funding for support of people with developmental disabilities (2 ideas)
- Put a cap on funding per person from all benefits programs
- Protect rights of disabled using motorized scooters
- Increase funding for services for people with developmental disabilities
- Eliminate duplication between OPGT and ODSP services
- Do not deduct children’s benefits or earnings from parents' ODSP benefits
- Allow ODSP recipients access to medical supply funding regardless of employment status
- Hire and encourage businesses to hire people with disabilities
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Hospitals
15ideas | - Decrease wait times (2 ideas)
- Eliminate hospital parking costs (2 ideas)
- Unfreeze hospital funding (2 ideas)
- Create overnight walk-in clinics
- Lengthen allowed hospital stay time for women delivering newborns
- Build luxury hospitals to increase medical tourism
- Renovate and expand instead of closing hospitals
- Set a maximum ratio of patients to nurses
- Ensure hospitals are fully accessible
- Equip hospitals with front line pregnancy support specialists
- Merge local hospitals into regional organizations
- Expand the number of hospitals accepting umbilical cord blood donations
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Seniors
14ideas | - Invest in social engagement of disabled and elderly people
- Create new benefits for seniors
- Create a tax credit to support families caring for elderly parents
- Reimburse seniors for the cost of exercise programs
- Increase discounts on seniors' public transit fares
- Offer funding or grants to small businesses that help seniors
- Provide coverage for hospice care
- Directly fund families who need full time eldercare for seniors
- Provide ODSP coverage for seniors over the age of 65 who receive CPP retirement benefits
- Provide pharmacare for seniors
- Expand the Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit
- Create supports to help seniors navigate programs designed for them
- Commission independent research on the ageing population
- Offer specialized healthcare for seniors
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Family and Youth Services
12ideas | - Expand services for children with Autism (3 ideas)
- Equalize benefits paid to relatives raising children and those paid to foster parents
- Increase social services and funding for troubled youth
- Provide funding for children in the care of relatives
- End discrimination of men seeking access to domestic violence services
- Fund marriage counseling courses to support families at risk
- Expand the expansion of the Grandview Children’s Centre
- Increase funding for children’s aid
- Improve speech therapy and occupational therapy for children
- Provide specialty shelters for youth in poverty
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Medications
11ideas | - Create a public pharmacare system (4 ideas)
- Provide coverage for chemotherapy medications (3 ideas)
- Cover prescriptions when not funded by a private plan
- Create independent oversight bodies to approve medication
- Cover HIV and Hepatitis C medications under OHIP
- Provide coverage for Alzheimer’s drugs
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Long term care
8ideas | - Increase funding for long term care (5 ideas)
- Provide better quality long term care (2 ideas)
- Create a benefit for low income caregivers
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Home care
7ideas | - Expand funding for home care services (4 ideas)
- Support commercialization of inventions which help home care
- Allow people with disabilities to hire their own Personal Support Workers (PSWs)
- Ensure accountability for money given for home care
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Poverty reduction
7ideas | - Invest in social housing (2 ideas)
- Require donation of unsold groceries
- Fund churches with community programs
- Move social housing to areas with lower costs, out of urban centers
- Create a special tax dedicated to poverty reduction
- Reduce the reporting and surveying burden on poverty reduction agencies
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Research
7ideas | - Increase funding for cancer research
- Offer genetic testing for early detection of illness
- Fully support stem cell research
- Increase funding allocated to Childhood Cancer Research
- Increase funding for Cochrane Collaboration
- Conduct a 360 degree review of pregnancy loss
- Develop a strategy for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Addictions services
3ideas | - Promote addictions treatment options over incarceration (2 ideas)
- Set dosage reduction targets for patients of methadone clinics
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Vaccines
3ideas | - Carry out a long term study of the effectiveness of vaccines
- Host a public debate on the topic of vaccine safety and effectiveness
- Provide evidence about the effectiveness of flu vaccines
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Alternative medicine
3ideas | - Provide funding for alternative medicine
- Fund Tai Chi programs
- Educate physicians and Ontarians about alternative medicine
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Legislation
2ideas | - Pass Bill 141, the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness, Research and Care Act
- Exempt members of the College of Registered Psychotherapists from charging HST
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Rural health care
2ideas | - Provide incentives for doctors and their families to move to rural areas
- Expand rural funding for health care
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