US EditionQuebec Family Doctors Voting on New Deal After Province Backtracks on Reforms
The Quebec government offers $435 million more and drops penalties to resolve a dispute over physician pay and patient enrolment reforms, pending a doctors’ vote.
- On Friday, Quebec family doctors must vote on a tentative deal after the Coalition Avenir Québec government backtracked on several reforms tied to Bill 2.
- After passing Bill 2 in late October, the Coalition Avenir Québec government faced heavy pushback from physicians and medical groups, prompting negotiations to resolve an impasse.
- Negotiators offered specific concessions including financial compensation, scrapping the colour-coded patient-vulnerability system and adding $435 million while setting a 500,000 new patients by June 2026 target.
- A vote in favour would end the immediate impasse over pay and practice reforms, and if family doctors approve the deal, the government will amend Bill 2 with the amended law taking effect on Feb. 28.
- Thousands protested in Montreal against Bill 2, while Quebec pharmacists plan legal challenges, signalling broader sector resistance to the reforms.
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Le Journal de QuebecThe government would not have been able to reach an agreement with family doctors without the crisis caused by law 2, believes François Legault.
Quebec Family Doctors Voting on New Deal After Province Backtracks on Reforms
Quebec family doctors have until Friday to vote on a deal that would see the provincial government back down on several controversial reforms in a new law that changes how physicians are paid. The tentative deal would scrap performance-related penalties and a colour-coded system to assess patients’ vulnerability, and would provide an additional $435 million in the compensation package for family doctors. The province would also abandon its goal …
Quebec family doctors voting on new deal after province backtracks on reforms
Quebec family doctors have until Friday to vote on a deal that would see the provincial government back down on several controversial reforms in a new law that changes how physicians are paid. The tentative deal would scrap performance-related penalties and a colour-coded system to assess patients’ vulnerability, and would provide an additional $435 million […]
Quebec walks back key measures in doctors’ pay law. Some say the damage is already done
At the province’s National Assembly, MNAs rushed to adopt one final piece of legislation before taking their winter break — one that postpones the start date of the CAQ’s controversial health reform law. It had caused a bitter, months-long battle with doctors, and details emerging from the government's tentative deal with family doctors show a Legault government willing to drop many of the law’s most contentious measures.
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