So how often do home care companies miss appointments the government pays them to deliver? "It's wrong," said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition and a longtime advocate for public health care. "Home care companies get contracts for … visits that they do not fulfil, yet they still get their money," she said. Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition and a longtime advocate for public health care, says for-profit home care companies generally pay their employees less than not-for-profit companies. At an unrelated news conference two weeks ago, Elliott told a Marketplace producer that all players — for-profit home care companies and not-for-profit — are "important."

Source: CBC News March 19, 2022 02:44 UTC