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hospitals will be perâ€" mitted to increase their revenues by charging more for private and semiâ€"private beds next year, as well as conâ€" verting some public ward space, now set at 50 per cent of a hospiâ€" tal‘s beds, to private or semiâ€"private use. Previously, revenue from this type of acâ€" comniodation has been split 65â€"35 between the The Minister of Health has announced a number of changes aimed at helping hospiâ€" tals wipe out their anâ€" nual deficits, which this year reached $100 million. These changes are due to take place Apr. 1, 1982. Among other things, Chamber elects officers ‘‘Medicare is now being systematically dismantled." Hospitals ‘"are now being told to declare more of their beds as private and semiâ€" private, so if you are waiting for an operaâ€" tion you‘ll be told: ‘Look, we can‘t accomâ€" modate you in a stanâ€" dard ward, but if you would come in as semiâ€" private we just might Liberal Leader Stuart Smith‘s reaction to the minister‘s anâ€" nouncement was that province and the hospiâ€" tals respectively. Under the new plan, the hospital will be able to keep all the revenue and apply it to other programs. get you in a little Stuart Smith tabled a motion calling for an emergency debate on a "matter of urgent pubâ€" lic importance, namely the imposition of twoâ€" class health care in Ontario announced outâ€" side the Legislature by the Minister of Health whereby supplementaâ€" ry hospital insurance will become a nécesâ€" sity, even longer waitâ€" ing periods will be imâ€" posed on ordinary citiâ€" zens, and user fees are to be entrenched, thus further eroding univerâ€" sal medicare." During the debate Smith made a good point in regard to press reports about user fees in hospitals, saying, sooner.‘" The only way the hospitals can surâ€" vive now, according to the government, is to gouge people who want semiâ€"private care." Queen‘s Park report says user fees, then the Minister of Health says papers and then along comes the minister the next day to say, ‘Well, they are fees paid by users, but that is not gets a headline for sayâ€" ing nothing other than, there will not be user 'ee.- +» It is especially agâ€" gravating to think that the $100 million of the hospital deficit, is the amount on the interest alone for the Suncor deal which is certainly less immediately adâ€" vantageous to the average Ontario citizen than our health care system. It is just another exâ€" ample of the present government‘s arrogant attitude when they can face the people of Onâ€" tario and say they are going to spend $10 milâ€" lion on an executive jet for J.G. Martin, D.S.0., Q.C. W.R. Greenwood, B.A., LL.B R.L. Warren, B.A., LL.B. M.W. McCarter, B.A., LL.B. The Partners of CLEMENT, EASTMAN, DREGER, MARTIN & MEUNIER G.E. Eastman, C.D., Q.C. Barristers and Solicitors are pleased to announce that MICHAEL WILLIAM McCARTER, B.A., LL. B. has been admitted into the partnership ‘WaATERLOO CHRONICLE, TUESDAY, DECEMUHER 22, 1981 â€" PAGE 17 277 King Street West, Kitchener N2G 4J9 â€" 743â€"0256 go galavanting across the country speculating with public money in the international marâ€" ket; and yet they canâ€" R.G. Meunier, Q.C., M.A. D.C. Downie, Q.C., B.A., LL.B. F.S. Finch, B.A., LL.B. J.J.K. Martin, B.A., LL.B. P.E. Grespan, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (L.Sâ€"E.) F.L. Dreger, Q.C., B.A. not find the money To help the hospitals with their deficit, thereby benefiting all the peoâ€" ple of Ontario directly.