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As the number of Ontario residents without family physicians grows, municipalities are playing an increasing role in attracting new doctors and some of them are offering cash incentives. Photo by XiXinXing / Getty Images Article content Some compare it to an arms race pitting Ontario municipalities against each other and undermining health equity. At least one municipal leader is asking the provincial government to put a stop to the growing practice of municipalities offering cash incentives in a bid to attract physicians to their communities.
“It is an unsustainable model,” said Mayor Matthew Shoemaker of Sault Ste. Marie. “It is not helping the system.
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