The group that will do the best out of the recent provincial Budget are the doctors. According to the just released Budget Estimates , OHIP funding (which goes overwhelmingly to physicians and practitioners) will go up $1.2 billion or 8% compared to last year's Estimates. (Note -- this is a little different, and less accurate, than the comparisons with last year's interim amounts reported in the 2019 Budget and used elsewhere in this note. It is the only comparison publicly available for OHIP as of the moment, however. The Financial Accountability Office has suggested that the actual OHIP spend last year would be less than in the Estimates by several hundred million. So the actual increase this year may be larger than $1.2 billion. We will know for sure when the Public Accounts finalize the books for 2018-19 in September.) This large increase is likely due to the February 2019 interest arbitration award for doctors, an award that was praised as " fair " by
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan