Quebec wants to make it harder for doctors to go from public to private system

Quebec wants to make it harder for doctors to go from public to private system

Through amendments tabled Tuesday to beef up a bill it tabled last year, the Coalition Avenir Québec government wants to crack down on physicians going back and forth between the public and private health systems.

The Minister added to Bill 83 the obligation to obtain the approval of Health Québec before leaving the public network.

Doctors will no longer be able to leave the public network for the private sector as they please, nor will they be able to go back and forth between the two schemes as they please. They will soon have to meet criteria and obtain a permit, La Presse learned.

In an extraordinary session, the DZ deputies adopted an amendment to the law on medical activity delimiting healthcare by 50 votes in favor and seven against. The amendment will make it impossible for doctors and other public health workers, except in rare exceptions, to additional work with private individuals, but under certain conditions they will be able to work in other public institutions and with concessionaires.

The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, wants to strengthen his Bill 83, which aims to curb the exodus of doctors to the private sector.M

QUEBEC — The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, wishes to strengthen his Bill 83, which aims to curb the exodus of doctors to the private sector. On Tuesday, Mr. Dubé tabled a package of amendments that would make it more difficult for doctors to "go back and forth" temporarily disaffiliate themselves from the public system to practice in the private sector. He proposed that doctors obtain authorization from Santé Québec to disaffiliate themsel…