Opposition parties take aim at controversial long-term care policy
I think it’s a tragedy I’m hearing increasingly about vulnerable people having to leave their communities, to go far away to find long term care beds, their community and their family members having to travel or never see them, you know, not see them often enough. It’s it’s very sad, it’s very tragic and it’s exactly what we warned this government was going to happen and they have the power to reverse course and they should do that. This shouldn’t be happening. No. You know, you know, it’s not a huge number of families but. There’s enough families out there, I think hundreds of families who are being told your mom or your dad or your sister, your brother has to go here, you have to go here and that’s not right otherwise. And of course otherwise you’re going to get a $400.00 a day bill. Not right. It just shows you how cruel the government’s Bill 7 is, forcing elders out of hospital when they have no other place to go and then charging them for it. We know that it is better for people’s health and it’s also better for long term care homes, if care providers and family members. Are close to where residents are being housed, forcing them in some cases long distances away. The homes that they don’t want to go to and then charging them to do it is wrong.