{"id":814,"date":"2008-02-20T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2008-02-20T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:02:00","slug":"quebec-commission-makes-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Quebec commission makes recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=87f91357-af32-48bb-915b-a1b0c20a211c&amp;k=38635\">Quebec commission makes recommendations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quebec &#8211; The Castonguay task force on health care proposes a $25 charge for every visit to a doctor and an increase up to one percentage point in the Quebec sales tax to help pay for medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Claude Castonguay, the chair of the task force, notes that health care, as a share of the provincial budget is growing 5.8 per cent a year, while total government spending increases 3.9 per cent annually.<\/p>\n<p>He proposes capping health spending at 3.9 per cent and making up for the shortfall with a new health-stability fund, financed by the $25 doctor&#8217;s charge and the sales-tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>Extra billing for health care is currently illegal under the Canada Health Act, which Castonguay concludes &#8216;hampers the evolution of the provincial public health systems.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>In keeping with the &#8220;warts and all&#8221; approach to comparing helathcare systems&#8230;<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>The <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?id=8fe9b529-d02b-4e33-8b9a-a1ab4342b969\"><em>feedback to the story was mostly negative<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec commission makes recommendations: &#8220;Quebec &#8211; The Castonguay task force on health care proposes a $25 charge for every visit to a doctor and an increase up to one percentage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quebec commission makes recommendations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-us-world-health-care-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}