A Human-Centred Solution Is Needed for Long-Term Care Homes
The Need for Working People to Control the Aim
in Long-Term Care Homes and the
Broad Health Care Sector
 The disastrous situation in long-term care homes during the pandemic has been well documented. An
exposure in The Toronto Star
article entitled "‘Devastating to watch': Private long-term-care
homes have seen some of Ontario's worst death rates -- but Doug Ford's
new funding set them up for decades of profits" details the close
connection
between some of the private interests in Ontario's long-term care
sector and the provincial government.[1]
Many staff and residents and their families have greatly suffered.
Instead of viewing the human beings providing and receiving long-term
care as one humanity involved in a crucial necessary service, those in
control see the health care institutions and their staff and residents
as objects and subjects to be exploited for private gain. Control and
ownership of social enterprise and services as private property
dominates the thinking and outlook of the system of party rule and is
the reference point in contradiction with the socialized conditions and
needs of the people.
The construction of health care facilities and their operation, the
supplies including pharmaceuticals, the procuring of investment funds,
the workers providing the care, the manner in which the produced value
is realized and importantly the aim of why long-term care homes and
health care generally exist in the first place are all targets of
global private interests in the service of their own narrow interests.
The private aim of the ruling elite which controls the purse strings
clashes with the socialized conditions of the economy and society and
the necessary attendant modern aim and outlook to look after one
another as members belonging to our socialized collective of one
humanity.
The people work in the socialized economy; they depend on it for
their livelihoods and to meet their needs and that of society. They
have no other choice but to work and live within the given socialized
conditions into which they are born. They have legitimate claims on the
economy and society to guarantee their rights and well-being from
birth to passing away. Those modern conditions call on us to work and
live with one another both as productive workers and when necessary as
dependents.
 The
Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada addresses the problem in its program
as the necessity to bring the economic, political and social relations
and forms into conformity with the objective social conditions facing
humanity.
The call in the health care sector is to rid it of any aspect of
paying the rich, to increase funding of social programs and to change
the political process so that an empowered people are not blocked from
solving problems but encouraged to institute change and bring in the New.
The MLPC calls on the people to bring into being a modern Canada
that defends the rights of all! Let us together forge a New Direction
for the Economy; Stop Paying the Rich; Increase Funding for Social
Programs! Humanize the social and natural environment!
All Out for Democratic Renewal! Note
1. For the complete text of the article by Richard Warnica, Business Feature Writer from The Star, July 15, 2021, click here.
This article was published in
December 10, 2021 - No. 118
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/WF2021/Articles/WO081181.HTM
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