I am a person that suffers from a spinal cord injury I suffered in a car accident back in 1983.  Since then I have developed scoliosis in my neck and lower back.  My only relief is through prescription medicines which can led to addictions if they are narcotics, for which I avoid at all cost, and Chiropractic treatments.

Like tens of thousands of Ontarians and millions of Canadians, I have no health coverage and even when I did there were set annual financial limits which was hardly enough to keep the pain away or correct the issues causing my pain.

In a report by The Canadian Pain Task Force, an estimated 7.63 million, or one in four Canadians aged 15 or older, live with chronic pain - a condition that although often invisible, is now understood as a disease.  Chronic pain has significant impacts on physical and mental health, family and community life, society, and the economy, with the total direct and indirect cost of $38.3 to $40.4 billion in 2019.

Many of these people's cause of pain can be treated effectively using regular Chiropractic treatments but they are no longer covered under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) because the Government of Ontario, under Dalton McGuinty (Liberal), in it's healthcare budget removed (delisted) chiropractic co-payments from OHIP on December 1st, 2004.  This delisting of coverage has directly contributed to the opioid crisis as people try to deal with their chronic pain by turning to stronger pain medication and to the mental health crisis caused by constantly being in pain with no relief.

When people are not in physical pain they become productive citizens, who feel great about and within themselves.

I am asking, no, I am begging, the the Ontario Government to relist Chiropractic Treatments as an insurable treatment for chronic pain cause by spinal trauma and disease.  I hope you will support me in this serious request.