Disease Database Drug Database Alt. The Conservative government had been warning for weeks it could no longer afford to sustain the rate of growth to its health-care budget. The soaring expense of treating an aging and growing population is fast becoming more than the province can bear, Flaherty continued to insist. 2001.The parents of private school students joined Ontario taxpayers Wednesday as the main beneficiaries of the Conservative government s latest provincial budget. It is simply not sustainable.
Health accounts for the largest chunk of spending in Ontario.
At 45 cents out of every dollar the province spends, the cost is more than twice that of education and three times the amount spent on social services. That had some observers worried profit-driven companies would be allowed to direct patient care. We need the current public system funded sufficiently to cover the needs of the people of Ontario. Premier Mike Harris and Health Minister Tony Clement have been saying for weeks that private funding may be necessary to save a beleaguered system stretched to its limit. The province also renewed calls for Ottawa to completely restore federal transfers for health care slashed in 1995.