Two are current CEO’s of home-care companies and a third council member is a former home-care company board chair. Over the past 18 months, the LHINs have organized the delivery, payment and supervision of home-care services provided by these private companies. And the healthy margins that home-care companies already make from PSW visits seem insufficient for them. In their 2019 prebudget submission, Home Care Ontario, the association for home-care companies, demands a “provincial task force …. Well, these companies also provide private home-care services and will increase their profit margin even further if they can shift more vulnerable Ontarians from a publicly funded to a private model of care.

Source: thestar February 14, 2019 17:26 UTC