Wendy Thomson
Quebec backs off health user fees, but the cost challenge remains
News that Quebec has retreated from its daring proposal to impose a user fee for visits to the doctor is bound to be greeted by advocates of market-oriented health reforms as a dispiriting setback, and as a victory by defenders of universal insurance that doesn’t impose direct costs on patients.
‘The most depressing thing you’ll read today’
Adam Radwanski points to John Geddes’ dispatch from Montreal.