In a Canadian Health Care Consensus Group Commentary on health care reform in Quebec, Health Care: Towards significant changes, author and signatory Claude Castonguay says, “If the necessary changes are not made, our system cannot survive”. He now has an exciting opportunity to help.

 

Articles from the Globe and Mail as well as The Canadian Press discuss Mr. Castonguay being named as head of a Quebec task force with a mandate to “define the role the private sector can play to improve access and reduce wait times,” and “study changes that might have to be made to the Canada Health Act.”

 

In Health Care: Towards significant changes, Mr. Castonguay sets out a step by step process to reform health care in Quebec beginning with the fundamentals, the very governance of the Canadian health care system, which he says must change. He also recommends separation of the roles of the purchasers and the providers of health care services.

 

Health Care: Towards significant changes concludes with seven proposals, which he says would “allow us to save our health care system and its essential universal character.”

 

 

To read the complete Globe and Mail article, click here.

 

To read the complete Canadian Press article, click here.

 

To read Health Care: Towards significant changes, click here.