Only two things make up 40% of Ontario ER admissions. Car crashes. Alcohol incidents.

Alcohol is also involved in dozens of extremely expensive chronic diseases.

If the devil came to me and asked me to destroy the Ontario Healthcare system as much as possible in order to introduce an american-style private system, here is what I would actually do.

• Cut gas taxes. The goal is to make driving more attractive and cut funds for public transits.
• Stop all safe bike lanes to reduce physical activity.
• Attack speed cameras, making false claims about them
• Make alcohol more easily available to increase alcohol consumption.
• Cut taxes on alcohol consumption

I would ignore smart ideas to help the working class such as cutting the first bracket of the income tax or creating a tax break for those who take public transit. I would instead encourage Ontarians to drive as much as possible and consume alcohol. Fuck the fiscal sustainability of the Ontario healthcare system. We need to starve the beast and overwhelm its ressources.

That's exactly I would do if I was an american in charge of crushing the Ontario healthcare system.