Quebec health minister to table 150 amendments to health-care reform bill – Montreal | 24CA News
The clause-by-clause assessment of Health Minister Christian Dubé’s main health-care reform, Bill 15, resumed on the National Assembly Monday afternoon.
After listening to from a number of involved events in hearings final spring, the committee on well being and social providers will now proceed to assessment the invoice’s practically 1,200 articles. If it’s adopted, the invoice would make a number of modifications to the province’s health-care system, together with the creation of a brand new company, Santé-Québec, that will oversee day-to-day operations.
Opposition events have accused the well being minister of passing the buck with this new company, and worry it may result in the additional centralization of the health-care system, in addition to an absence of accountability.
“We have to be realistic. The bill is tabled. It will be adopted eventually by the majority government, so this agency will be created,” mentioned Parti-Québecois Health Critic Joël Arseneau.
“But [what we want to see] is the agency be responsible for its actions, and that the minister continue to be the representative of the government — and its citizens — faced with a health system we need to improve.”
The Quebec Liberal social gathering, in the meantime, is looking for amendments in 4 foremost areas, specifically in inside governance methods and accountability, in addition to within the safety of native customers’ committees in hospitals and health-care amenities.
“People turn to their users committees,” mentioned Quebec Liberal Health Critic André Fortin. “Not everything has to come to Quebec City, not everything needs to be looked at by the central government.”
For his half, Health Minister Christian Dubé says he’s open and able to pay attention to those considerations. That’s why he plans on tabling some 150 amendments to his invoice as early as Tuesday morning.
“I think I’m listening and I’m listening not only to the opposition, but all the parties that are involved in the network,” he mentioned.
The well being minister additionally pressured Bill 15 is just a part of his general health-care plan, describing how ongoing negotiations with the nurses’ union may even play an important function.
“We are working in parallel on other issues — and collective agreements is one of them, access by the doctors — and I can name you a bunch of things that we presented in our health plan more than a year ago that we’re still working on,” he mentioned.
Dubé nonetheless has hope he’ll be capable of work collaboratively with the opposition members and have the invoice adopted by the top of the autumn. In the meantime, the clause-by-clause assessment is anticipated to proceed into subsequent week.
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