Independent facilities, run by entrepreneurs, have an incentive to innovate and a greater capacity to do so given the smaller size of their organizations.

The median length of stay for a patient in an ER in Quebec was 5 hours and 11 minutes last year, according to this MEI study. With the exception of the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the median length of stay of an emergency room visit has been increasing for four years, going from 4 hours and 31 minutes in 2018 to 5 hours and 11 minutes last year.

If you’ve been waiting months for an operation, what’s your main concern? Is it the administrative structure of the facility where you will be treated, or is it rather a reduction in the time you have to wait?

There tends to be a bit of a disconnect between what the people want, and what the government delivers. Just look at long-term care.

Many other countries with universal health insurance allow so-called duplicate insurance to ease pressure on the public system.

Ford’s plan to involve privately owned and operated facilities in delivering care within Ontario’s universal health system builds on well-documented success stories.

Is changing a Quebecer’s bandage very different from changing a Manitoban’s?

Il n’est pas étonnant que trois Québécois sur quatre se disent ouverts à l’idée d’expérimenter des systèmes mixtes, tels qu’on les voit en France et en Suède.

Il ne faut jamais attendre bien longtemps avant que les syndicats ressortent l’épouvantail de la privatisation et de l’austérité pour diaboliser les tentatives de réformes en santé.

The public is not ready to keep pumping more and more money into a system that doesn’t work. What the people want instead is a real reform.