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The Ontario Medical Association has estimated that 1.2 million Ontarians in both rural and urban areas don't have access to a family physician. The Health Ministry considers 142 communities medically underserviced.
On Monday, the specialist coalition said Health Minister George Smitherman needs to dig deeper.
''We're in very serious danger in Ontario of the whole system collapsing, sooner than later,'' said Hughes. ''There has to be some ability to get more money into the system and Smitherman needs to figure out how to do that.''
The contract, which goes to the OMA's 24,000 members for a non-binding telephone referendum starting Tuesday, will put at least another $2.4 billion in doctors' pockets.
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