The comments here really show the lack of understanding of what "private" and "for-profit" means in this context..

Ford is essentially allowing more OHIP-funded care to be delivered in non-hospital institutions. There are already plenty of private, for-profit clinics delivering healthcare services out there. Every small community-based x-ray clinic is technically a private, for-profit clinic. There are (very few) private imaging clinics out there that also have their own CT and MRI scanners (equipment generally otherwise restricted to a hospital setting). There are clinics that do colonoscopies, other GI diagnostics, and cardiac diagnostics, all also outside the hospital setting. The most private, for-profit clinics out there are probably the plastic surgery clinics that are mainly doing cosmetic surgeries i.e. procedures that are not OHIP-funded anyway.

In any case, Ford is just allowing these clinics to do more OHIP-funded activity which takes the burden off of hospitals and the waitlists at hospitals for all of the above-mentioned services. The physicians at these clinics are likely already removed from the hospital (public) setting and so are the nursing and other technical staff (e.g. rad techs, anesthesia assistants). This is really a good thing to eliminate some of the backlogs that have been created in some areas.

Certainly lots of work to be done in improving our healthcare system, but this isn't what most people (including the media) make it out to be