SoVote

Decentralized Democracy

Minister of Health

Hon. Mark Holland

  • Member of Parliament
  • Minister of Health
  • Liberal
  • Ajax
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 64%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $134,982.00

  • Government Page
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Hon. Mark Holland
  • May/29/24 9:11:52 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, it is one of the most heart-wrenching things in the world. I can go back to my time at the Heart and Stroke when I headed its Ontario mission. I was the national director of children and youth, and I would see folks who had heart attacks and strokes because they did not have access to their diabetes medication and were not following a proper regime. As I mentioned, it can lead to all kinds of other terrible outcomes. Adherence to these medicines is essential for their health. It is also essential as a matter of cost reduction. It is extraordinarily expensive to allow somebody to get into a catastrophic state. We need to get out of the business of crisis management in health care. We need to be up the stream preventing these things. The Public Health Agency of Canada has done extraordinary work, but we need to do a lot more work on prevention. The future in this country is avoiding illness before it ever happens and making sure that people live long, healthy and full lives by avoiding illness and disease and keeping our hospitals empty because the services are simply not needed.
199 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border
Context: House Hansard - 238 - Oct/24/23
Hon. Mark Holland (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Oct/24/23 3:19:34 p.m.
  • Watch
Mr. Speaker, any time somebody sustains a brain injury, it has a devastating impact upon their life and the lives of those in their families. The member is absolutely right. We have to do everything we can. That is why we are making critical investments across the health system, with $200 billion of additional money being put in. Those dollars are to ensure that we not only can see better health outcomes, but also can have better prevention and better care. We saw a fantastic announcement in British Columbia. There is more to come in the rest of the country. Health transformation is happening.
104 words
  • Hear!
  • Rabble!
  • star_border