Don Drummond continues to speak to all and sundry media about the approach his Commission into Ontario public services will propose. A Mop and Pail columnist suggests that at "the heart of the new spending model would be a much tighter clampdown on health costs than Dalton McGuinty’s government has previously forecast."
The current funding plan from the government is to increase health care funding by 3% per year.
Drummond told The Toronto Star columnist Martin Cohn: “There are going to be a ton of things in our recommendations that the government is not going to be pleased with. And the public should also brace for bitter medicine: “There will be lots of negative reaction, lots of anger.”
Cohn suggests Drummond may propose health care funding increases be scaled back to 2.5%, instead of 3%. As for the other parts of the public sector -- well they face deep cuts, according to Cohn.
Cohn also suggests that Drummond wants have public hearings on his proposals around the province. That could prove interesting.
The current funding plan from the government is to increase health care funding by 3% per year.
Drummond told The Toronto Star columnist Martin Cohn: “There are going to be a ton of things in our recommendations that the government is not going to be pleased with. And the public should also brace for bitter medicine: “There will be lots of negative reaction, lots of anger.”
Cohn suggests Drummond may propose health care funding increases be scaled back to 2.5%, instead of 3%. As for the other parts of the public sector -- well they face deep cuts, according to Cohn.
Cohn also suggests that Drummond wants have public hearings on his proposals around the province. That could prove interesting.
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