Dear OMA Negotiations Team, We are a group of Ontario physicians who would like to present our collective concerns with the ongoing unilateral cuts made by the MOHLTC. We are fortunate to have you, the OMA, advocating for us at this critical juncture. The current situation will shape Ontario’s health care climate for years to come. We agree that the Ministry’s ongoing pattern of arbitrary funding cuts, the hard cap on physician services, and the looming threat of claw-backs is immoral, exploitative, and unprecedented. This situation affects physicians in every discipline, at every stage of practice. We recognize and applaud the OMA’s efforts to educate our members and the public about what these cuts mean, and the consequences that we as a society can expect. We appreciate that the OMA has tried, time and again, to work with the MOHLTC to come to an agreement that allows physicians to provide the care that is necessary in a manner that acknowledges these difficult and uncertain economic times. At this point, however, we need to do more. We feel that the OMA is in the unique position to be able to mobilize and guide us in emphasizing to our members, to the public, and most of all, to the Ministry that we will not be ignored any longer. We need to come together with a campaign that makes patients realize that their care truly is at stake. At this point we would like the OMA to seriously consider various means of job action. This could take many forms, and we wish to do it in a way that does not compromise patient safety or access to care, but that does ‘get the word out’. Some ideas that have been proposed are a version of a work to rule campaign, a mass vacation of short duration, or a temporary ‘one issue per visit’ policy. We have never aspired to provide patient care that is just ‘good enough’, and our goal will always be to do our best for our patients. However, if we continue to feel devalued and disrespected, we will no longer be able or willing to go above and beyond to provide the exemplary care that we strive for. We need to be heard, and the OMA is our voice. Thank you.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 17, 2015
September 16, 2015
We have reached one hundred signatures. I am compiling this list to submit to the OMA board next week alongside a formal letter requesting a meeting to discuss specific job action strategies.
Reached 100 supporters
September 16, 2015
September 16, 2015
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need to reach this threshold to force a formal response from the OMA leadership. I am preparing a briefing package for the negotiations committee and require this volume of data to demonstrate the clinical scope of our opposition before our next consultation.
273 Comments
The government is telling us we work to much, and health care costs are too high. They cut our OR time, our hospital budgets, the services we can provide. So they want us to do less? Who is going to suffer? Oh, yeah, the patients.
I work hard in a rural community and this government is making me feel undervalued and unappreciated. I feel like they are taking my services for granted (which I am sure my patients are not). Democracy should be negotiation and discussion, not imposing changes.
When the government rams through cuts in this way, MDs no longer feel responsible to make a fractured system work. I will do my best for my patients, but there is a limit to what I can do and services are going to go unprovided for new patients for whom I do not have room.
If we don't get fair negotiations we will locum elsewhere in Canada. That's the point of national standards and the federal work from anywhere in Canada program introduced in 2010. It's that easy to work in Regina in St Johns or in Edmonton for a few months a year. Deal with that!
It's preposterous that this is happening. I moved to Canada from the U.S but now seriously considering moving back. These cuts are only going to put more pressure on doctors to increase patient load and reduce quality care. Extremely disappointed!
Health is something that should always be a priority! A no brainer when it comes to cuts look elsewhere and leave our health Care alone we do not want to be like the US>
We should not have to pick up the tab for Orange E health and other government wastes
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Dear OMA Negotiations Team, We are a group of Ontario physicians who would like to present our collective concerns with the ongoing unilateral cuts made by the MOHLTC. We are fortunate to have you, the OMA, advocating for us at this critical juncture. The current situation will shape Ontario’s health care climate for years to come. We agree that the Ministry’s ongoing pattern of arbitrary funding cuts, the hard cap on physician services, and the looming threat of claw-backs is immoral, exploitative, and unprecedented. This situation affects physicians in every discipline, at every stage of practice. We recognize and applaud the OMA’s efforts to educate our members and the public about what these cuts mean, and the consequences that we as a society can expect. We appreciate that the OMA has tried, time and again, to work with the MOHLTC to come to an agreement that allows physicians to provide the care that is necessary in a manner that acknowledges these difficult and uncertain economic times. At this point, however, we need to do more. We feel that the OMA is in the unique position to be able to mobilize and guide us in emphasizing to our members, to the public, and most of all, to the Ministry that we will not be ignored any longer. We need to come together with a campaign that makes patients realize that their care truly is at stake. At this point we would like the OMA to seriously consider various means of job action. This could take many forms, and we wish to do it in a way that does not compromise patient safety or access to care, but that does ‘get the word out’. Some ideas that have been proposed are a version of a work to rule campaign, a mass vacation of short duration, or a temporary ‘one issue per visit’ policy. We have never aspired to provide patient care that is just ‘good enough’, and our goal will always be to do our best for our patients. However, if we continue to feel devalued and disrespected, we will no longer be able or willing to go above and beyond to provide the exemplary care that we strive for. We need to be heard, and the OMA is our voice. Thank you.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 17, 2015
September 16, 2015
We have reached one hundred signatures. I am compiling this list to submit to the OMA board next week alongside a formal letter requesting a meeting to discuss specific job action strategies.
Reached 100 supporters
September 16, 2015
September 16, 2015
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need to reach this threshold to force a formal response from the OMA leadership. I am preparing a briefing package for the negotiations committee and require this volume of data to demonstrate the clinical scope of our opposition before our next consultation.
273 Comments
Not sure how I will pay back all of my loans and still be able to be a competent physician that is diligent if I have to see more patients just to survive. Not fair to patients if I cannot be there to listen and care.
The government is telling us we work to much, and health care costs are too high. They cut our OR time, our hospital budgets, the services we can provide. So they want us to do less? Who is going to suffer? Oh, yeah, the patients.
I work hard in a rural community and this government is making me feel undervalued and unappreciated. I feel like they are taking my services for granted (which I am sure my patients are not). Democracy should be negotiation and discussion, not imposing changes.
When the government rams through cuts in this way, MDs no longer feel responsible to make a fractured system work. I will do my best for my patients, but there is a limit to what I can do and services are going to go unprovided for new patients for whom I do not have room.
If we don't get fair negotiations we will locum elsewhere in Canada. That's the point of national standards and the federal work from anywhere in Canada program introduced in 2010. It's that easy to work in Regina in St Johns or in Edmonton for a few months a year. Deal with that!
It's preposterous that this is happening. I moved to Canada from the U.S but now seriously considering moving back. These cuts are only going to put more pressure on doctors to increase patient load and reduce quality care. Extremely disappointed!
Health is something that should always be a priority! A no brainer when it comes to cuts look elsewhere and leave our health Care alone we do not want to be like the US>
We should not have to pick up the tab for Orange E health and other government wastes
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Not sure how I will pay back all of my loans and still be able to be a competent physician that is diligent if I have to see more patients just to survive. Not fair to patients if I cannot be there to listen and care.