Ontario Families Deserve to Know What Dalton McGuinty’s Secretive, Unaccountable LHINs Are Hiding: Hudak


NEWS:

QUEEN’S PARK – The growing pattern of secrecy and lack of accountability within the McGuinty Government – seen most recently with the Liberal eco tax disaster – is showing up again in Dalton McGuinty’s Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) bureaucracy. Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today challenged Dalton McGuinty that if he won’t scrap the LHINs, he must move forward with the legally required LHIN legislative review.

Dalton McGuinty was legally required to hold a full LHIN legislative review by the end of March of this year. Instead, he sneakily cancelled the review and, to cover his tracks, he buried his decision to put off the review until conveniently after the next election on Page 164 of the 2010 budget.

With Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin’s report on the Hamilton-Niagara-Haldimand-Brant LHIN due out tomorrow, and a separate review of complaints made against the North East LHIN underway, Hudak outlined the urgent need for a full LHIN review. The evidence includes: at least $7 million discovered in untended LHIN contracts, the revelation that the Erie-St. Clair LHIN withheld details about botched pathology results from the public, nearly $200 million health care dollars wasted on LHIN salaries and administration, and the LHINs’ failed implementation of the Aging at Home strategy.

QUOTES:

“LHINs are unaccountable, unelected, and anonymous bureaucracies that contribute nothing to frontline care. That is why, as Premier, I would scrap Dalton McGuinty’s LHINs and direct health care dollars where they are needed most – on the frontlines and at the bedsides.”

–Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

“Ontario families have a right to know how these LHINs are spending their health care dollars. If Dalton McGuinty will not scrap his scandal-plagued LHINs, then he must permit a full LHIN legislative review before the next provincial election.”

–Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

QUICK FACTS:

  • The LHINs continue to divert health care dollars away from the frontlines. Nearly $200 million has been wasted on LHIN administration costs.
  • The Ontario PC Caucus has discovered, over a two-year period, that the LHINs handed out over $7 million in eHealth style untendered contracts
  • The LHINs have also failed their first real test by mismanaging the ‘Aging at Home’ strategy. After spending over $250 million health care dollars, wait lists for long-term care beds continue to grow and emergency room wait times remain well above the provincial benchmarks.

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