Québec solidaire (QS) is asking Health Minister Christian Dubé to cap the costs of private sector companies to prevent patients from being scammed when they seek treatment.
QS MP Vincent Marissal, whose party is against the development of the private sector, called on Friday for the creation of price scales to order the provision of services outside the public sector.
“At a minimum, can we at least put a cap, cap it quickly so that we stop scamming people because at the moment there is no grid,” he said in briefing. When there is no grid, obviously, if people can make money with it, less scrupulous people who have easy money, it’s almost normal that they will do it. But it’s not normal for the government to accept this. »
Mr. Marissal deplored that, in the current context, more and more patients are forced to opt for private care.
“We are talking about screening, the famous baby ear infection, a urinary infection which risks degenerating,” he said. These people have no choice because they look elsewhere, their doctors no longer call back. »
According to him, a private network is developing insidiously and a record number of Quebec doctors have disaffiliated from the public network. The MP noted that the prices charged vary from one place to another, sometimes “from simple to quadruple”.
“It’s the Wild West in terms of rates, there is no scale for doctors or clinics, because they can also be nurse practitioners, there is no rate,” he said. he says.
More details will follow.