Posted at 2:00 p.m.
History error
I agree with you on the remuneration of doctors, but I will go further. Basically, doctors render public services paid for by the state. Just like judges, engineers in the Department of Transport, nurses in hospitals or any other professional who renders public services provided by the State, doctors should be on salary. It is a historic error to have allowed physicians to consider themselves entrepreneurs.
Francois Legault
endless waiting
No matter what, it will always be the same problem. I am 79 years old and I have been waiting for a doctor for several years. I think I will have to wait until the end of my days.
Jacqueline White
take care of me
For the past few years, in January, the television advertisements of the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec have come back to us, with the slogan “We take care of you! “. I would love to one day be able to be one of those “you”. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will ever be part of this select club. All the proposed solutions, if implemented, would help our sick health system. Fee-for-service can no longer be considered and must necessarily be replaced. To solve the problem, why not add “common sense” to the equation.
Pierre Desforges
Access to specialists
To the list of suggestions, I would add a few others, including simpler or more direct access to medical specialists. Currently, when a general practitioner makes a request for a specialized examination ranging from the simplest to the most complex, the follow-up cannot be provided directly by the specialist doctor concerned. The result must be sent to the requesting doctor, who must make a new request either to the specialist doctor who will decide what to do next, or to the hospital for a new test. This back-and-forth paid each time on a fee-for-service basis lengthens delays, overloads the system and generates unnecessary costs. This is without taking into account the collateral damage caused to both patients and caregivers.
Monique Regnier
For a pay scale
Physicians should be salaried, paid on a salary scale according to specialty and experience. In addition, their work should be evaluated on the quality of their service, and improved for the best. Let’s stop considering each doctor as a separate business and we will save a lot of money.
Jacques Bournival
Low risk
It will not change much, there are not too many nurses because there is a crying need for staff in hospitals. Our doctors will therefore fall back on the fact that there are no nurses to explain that they can see their patients. Eventually, the list will continue to grow. The doctors are not taking a big risk in saying yes to the agreement.
Daniel Girard
Wasted time
By being paid on a fee-for-service basis, doctors have to waste a lot of time filling out forms to identify these “acts”, with all the codes… All the other people who work in the health field are on salary, why not the doctors ?
Ginette LeBlanc
And prevention?
I am 74 years old and in fairly good health. My family doctor now refuses to let me have an annual exam. It seems to me that at my age, an annual blood test followed by an examination is not exaggerated, it is prevention. Prevention: a word I don’t often hear from our health managers.
Michele Paquin, Bromont
Services not rendered
What are you waiting for to file a class action lawsuit against the government? I am 68 years old and 40% of my taxes go to the health care system each year while I have not been able to have a family doctor for three years. No services. It’s simple, I want a refund for services not rendered. Reimburse me for this money and I will be able to afford a private family doctor quickly. We need to act now. That’s enough !
Pierre Chartrand
Who benefits from it?
Very good ideas. It remains to be seen why such simple things are never implemented. I’m sure there are plenty of other solutions that would be applicable. The question is: who benefits from such complexity?
Pierre Braze, Eastman
Optimize your income
Agree with this approach, which will unfortunately be decried by too many doctors, who abuse useless appointments or limit the consultation to a single subject or optimize their income by shamelessly exploiting the billing manual, etc.
Claude Menard, Laval
Let’s dream in color
Minister Christian Dubé dreams in color. Nothing will change concerning the medical services offered to the population as long as we do not work to modify the mentality of the new generations of doctors. For change to occur, personal interests will have to take a back seat and concern for the common good will have to become second nature to these new physicians. This is obviously easier said than done since it is basically a matter of encouraging the emergence of a new mentality in the population as a whole. The others first, then me. And this, without obligation and with pleasure! Yes, I know, I too dream in colors…
Yves Brissette
flushed by the system
I am 74 years old and the system has me flushed two years ago. Since then, I fill small boxes on the internet in the meantime. Revenu Québec charges me usurious interest when I am late in my responsibilities as a citizen… while I continue to pay top dollar for a service that does not even recognize me.
Michel Roy, Quebec