The Coalition avenir Québec wants to rely even more on the private sector to facilitate access to health care.
She envisioned a “new model of privately managed health care, where services will be […] reimbursed by the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ)”.
Two new-style private medical centers, “halfway” between the Family Medicine Group (GMF) and the hospital”, will be built at a cost of some $35 million: one in East Montreal and one in Quebec City. .
Each of them will include a GMF “open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.”, emergencies “open 24 hours” able to “treat minor or lower priority cases”, three to five rooms allowing provide day surgery, a pharmacy, a specimen collection centre, medical imaging, and, if necessary, rehabilitation and mental health services.
“At the CAQ, we are moderate and pragmatic. We are open to the public and the private sector, as long as Quebecers have access to faster and free health care, ”said the chief caquist, François Legault, Saturday morning.
Further details will follow.
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