Under the Ford klan, we should not be surprised that the most expensive government in our history is also the most inefficient as it provides ever worsening service across all areas while focusing on handouts to wealthy developer pals of the conservatives. Healthcare takes the cake for dysfunction. The best example of Ford’s incompetence is the government’s handling of health records digitization. They refused to implement a plan in the interests of patients. Instead they told hospitals that they had to digitize records but would be given no money to do so. As a result, each hospital scrambled to cobble together software to accomplish the directive. The end result is that we have countless systems across the province with no coordination. Each of the four hospitals closest to me is on a different isolated system putting patient health at risk.
