Dental care is health care. We applaud today's move to expand coverage for Canadians. This is a good first step.
We're disappointed the majority of Manitoba's MPs, representing the Conservative Party of Canada, voted against taking action.
MPs and their families receive public dental insurance.
The Fraser Institute is out once again pushing its torqued agenda to privatize health care. MHC provincial director Thomas Linner is having none of it. We need real data and real solutions to wait times in Canada. The Fraser Institute has neither.
Cc @tmlinner.bsky.social
The Fraser Institute is out once again pushing its torqued agenda to privatize health care. MHC provincial director Thomas Linner is having none of it. We need real data and real solutions to wait times in Canada. The Fraser Institute has neither.
Cc @tmlinner.bsky.social
Respiratory viruses are hitting hospitals hard. MHC wants the provincial gov’t to reverse a PC decision not to cover cost of the RSV vaccine.
“We need to reduce barriers to access, and the cost is a major barrier to many folks” - Thomas Linner, @tmlinner.bsky.social
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Our hope is that this listening tour results in real and sustained change for patients, families and health-care providers. We know that moral is low and the frustration is real after seven years of cuts, chaos and privatization under the previous government.
#mbpoli #manitoba
Our hope is that this listening tour results in real and sustained change for patients, families and health-care providers. We know that moral is low and the frustration is real after seven years of cuts, chaos and privatization under the previous government.
#mbpoli #manitoba
CBC Manitoba: NDP shuts down Manitoba surgical and diagnostic task force that health minister says was inefficient
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“One of the greatest challenges a new NDP government will face is the powerful political and corporate forces taking aim at the public health care system across Canada.”
- MHC’s Thomas Linner for @CDN_Dimension
#mbpoli #cdnpoli
Dear @globeandmail.bsky.social
Thank you for asking, “How might business support access to health care?”
We are pleased to provide you with an answer:
Pay your taxes & support the public system.
Hope that helps.
Might save you the expense of an elite “networking event”.
#mbpoli
#cdnpoli
Dear @globeandmail.bsky.social
Thank you for asking, “How might business support access to health care?”
We are pleased to provide you with an answer:
Pay your taxes & support the public system.
Hope that helps.
Might save you the expense of an elite “networking event”.
#mbpoli
#cdnpoli
“It’s an absurdity. That is not what people expect from the health-care system anywhere in Canada. It’s just another indication to (...) the lack of capacity there has been for the last seven years.”
-MHC’s Thomas Linner - @tmlinner.bsky.social - on long delays for health cards in Manitoba.
“I believe that we will look back upon this government’s approach to the toxic drug-supply crisis and to harm reduction as its greatest failure.”
- MHC provincial director Thomas Linner @tmlinner.bsky.social
“I believe that we will look back upon this government’s approach to the toxic drug-supply crisis and to harm reduction as its greatest failure.”
- MHC provincial director Thomas Linner @tmlinner.bsky.social
MHC’s @tmlinner.bsky.social:
“[T]he province’s failure to support overdose prevention & supervised consumption services (…) is a perversion of triage principles.
Instead of maximizing the number of survivors (…) we have effectively shuttered our doors to those in the greatest need and danger.”
The PC government has cut over a billion dollars in taxes in the last 7 years - mostly for the wealthiest people & businesses in Manitoba - while creating a health crisis.
Deep new tax cuts would mean fresh new chaos for patients and families.
#mbpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The PC government has cut over a billion dollars in taxes in the last 7 years - mostly for the wealthiest people & businesses in Manitoba - while creating a health crisis.
Deep new tax cuts would mean fresh new chaos for patients and families.
#mbpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lucille Bruce and Carmen Nedohin make the case for the creation of an Office of the Seniors Advocate - with the full support of e Manitoba Health Coalition.
This government's greatest failure has been its ideological opposition to life-saving harm reduction measures like supervised consumption sites. Too many lives have been needlessly lost.
#mbpoli
Lucille Bruce and Carmen Nedohin make the case for the creation of an Office of the Seniors Advocate - with the full support of e Manitoba Health Coalition.
This government's greatest failure has been its ideological opposition to life-saving harm reduction measures like supervised consumption sites. Too many lives have been needlessly lost.
#mbpoli
MHC’s Thomas Linner - @tmlinner.bsky.social - will be speaking Thursday, September 21 at 7:00pm on the 2nd floor of the Union Centre, 275 Broadway in Winnipeg. He will focus on the cuts, chaos and privatization of the last seven years - and how we can put public health care over private profit.
“We’re calling for a supervised consumption site in Winnipeg and Manitoba because the difference between today and tomorrow for so many people is the services offered every day by people here.” - MHC’s @tmlinner.bsky.social to the community organizations gathered at the #IOAD2023 rally in Winnipeg
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day.
Manitoba is the only province in western Canada without a Supervised Consumption Site.
We are losing more than one person a day to this crisis.
Our government is actively working against harm reduction practices.
#IOAD2023
#mbpoli
“MHC has long been calling for a real strategic plan to be put in place (. . .) Unfortunately, we haven’t seen that so far from this government. They’ve given us very loose plans with no deadlines, no timelines, no metrics for success or failure.” - @tmlinner.bsky.social
"[MHC provincial director Thomas] Linner said the government’s decision to close emergency rooms at three Winnipeg hospitals in 2017 is still the biggest driver of the long wait times and overcrowding at hospitals."
Cc @tmlinner.bsky.social
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MHC provincial director @tmlinner.bsky.social with some thoughts on “parental rights” and keeping kids safe. #Manitoba #Winnipeg
