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Billy Pang

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Markham—Unionville
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 602 3601 Hwy. 7 E Markham, ON L3R 0M3 Billy.Pangco@pc.ola.org
  • tel: 905-474-3288
  • fax: 905-474-2878
  • Billy.Pangco@pc.ola.org

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  • May/15/23 4:20:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 85 

Talking about numbers in health care—through the 2022 budget, our government announced plans to invest $1 billion over three years to get more people connected to care in the comfort of their own home and community. We are now accelerating the investment to bring funding for 2023-24 up to $569 million, including nearly $300 million to stabilize the home and community workforce. This funding will also expand home care services and improve the quality of care, making it easier and faster for people to connect to care. We are providing an additional $425 million over three years for mental health and addictions, including a 5% increase in the base funding of community-based mental health and addictions services—providing funding by the Ministry of Health. Expanding the scope of practice of pharmacies to provide over-the-counter medication of common ailments has been very successful—not only the money, but the efficiency and effectiveness—

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