Posts Tagged ‘ACCESS TO CARE AND SERVICES’
The private sector in health care: panacea or bad idea?
The private sectorâs role in health care was on everyone’s lips during the election campaign, but given the widely diverging opinions, there was no clear understanding of how that might be interpreted. François Legault said he wanted to accelerate the âmigrationâ of primary care services to family medicine groups (GMFs) and give private clinics more latitude in specialized care. Dominique Anglade wanted a major push to clear the surgery backlog, through agreements with the private sector. Eric Duhaime bluntly questioned the basic principle of keeping public and private health care separate. And Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois tersely commented that if private health care worked, weâd know about it.
Read MoreâPlan santĂ©â â what is it?
Three years. Thatâs the deadline the Legault government has set itself to put the health and social services system back together with an action plan designed to make it âmore humanâ and âmore effectiveâ. But what is the actual content of Minister DubĂ©âs Plan santéž aka the âPlan to implement changes needed in health careâ? What are the Ministryâs objectives, how will it try to reach them, and, especially, what will be the impact on our system? Weâve gone through the 90-page document to find the answers.
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