Quebec to rejig health system
Quebec’s about to rejig the health system – do we think this will work, or will it end up making it harder to access help, and possibly put more services on a commercial basis?
I thought we already had a thing called Santé Québec…
jeather 13:59 on 2023-03-29 Permalink
Harder to access help? Is that possible now?
Just seems like another layer of bureaucracy to pay instead of more doctors.
Blork 15:38 on 2023-03-29 Permalink
I wish I wasn’t so cynical about government attempts to “improve” things. It’s almost always done by adding (as jeather says) another layer of bureaucracy, instead of simply hiring more people and (somehow) empowering them to be flexible in how they work so they can adapt to local and temporal situations and blah blah blah now I’m babbling because I have no idea how to get this babbling problem looked at.
MarcG 16:54 on 2023-03-29 Permalink
No doubt this will include some slippery-sloping towards privatization.
Maxim Baru 17:01 on 2023-03-29 Permalink
One thing is certain: there haven’t been any substantive efforts to consult with people who work in healthcare, or people who represent patients. Not even in some anemic form like focus groups or something.
I think the promise that this won’t mean “going to war with the unions” means exactly the opposite…
Uatu 14:06 on 2023-03-30 Permalink
So another layer of bullshit jobs. Ok
Tux 14:23 on 2023-03-30 Permalink
I just wanted to provide a link to the text of Bill 15 for anyone that wanted to read through it as I’m in the process of doing.
http://alturl.com/6iuyr
Kate 14:36 on 2023-03-30 Permalink
Thank you, Tux.
Joey 09:50 on 2023-03-31 Permalink
I think the intention is to replace the already excessively bloated health bureaucracy with a smaller, less-powerful layer of bureaucracy that more completely implements whatever the minister wants. YMMV on whether that’s a good thing or not (the first half, probably, the secodn, maybe less so). The minister’s MMV on whether creating a new agency does anything other than add another layer complexity to the system.