Victoria Liberals push health care reforms amid regional consolidation
The Liberals freeze health care spending for two years and split the province into five regions with czars and boards empowered to cut costs. Centralization shifts services, reduces local access, closes hundreds of beds, and forecasts about 8,000 job losses across the system over three years, despite plans to share on call duties and seek savings from contracting out.
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Health care change a needed gamble
The piece argues that up to one in six hospital beds hold nonpatients who could move to long-term care and up to a third of long-term care residents might shift to cheaper assisted living. Funding rises this year averaging 7.4 percent will be frozen for two years, pressuring programs. Regions may seek new revenue, including selling operations, room amenities charges, or supplier deals, while the Liberal plan aims to force change by a freeze. Paul Willcocks notes life requires less with less, urging smarter cuts.
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