Quebec plans to introduce 50 superclinics.

Quebec’s Health Department is senselessly blocking the opening of clinics run by nurse practitioners who specialize in front-line care. Yet these doctorless clinics would respond to real needs among the population, access to front-line care being one of the main failings of Quebec’s health system. Moreover, a nurse practitioner costs the health care system around 1/3 of what a general practitioner costs, shows an Economic Note published by the MEI.

It is difficult for innovative solutions like nurse-led clinics to establish themselves in a bureaucratic health care system.

Our governments have the tendency to imitate others for their public policies.

Bill 81 raises several questions.

Bill 81 raises several questions.

Quebec’s health care system continues to underperform compared to those in the rest of Canada and in other Commonwealth countries.

There are no universal and easy answers to dietary problems.

Funding for medically required care remains almost completely public in Canada.

Is the responsibility for financing health care services being increasingly entrusted to private actors? Is there more private sector funding of care here than in Europe, as some maintain? Contrary to what certain commentators declare, we are not witnessing the gradual privatization of health care funding in Canada. This Economic Note demonstrates that this is a myth, at least when it comes to medically required care, which forms the core of our health care system.