3-minute read
Landing the right reform for air travel
Air travel is stifled in Canada due to poor public policy with regard to airports and airlines.
5-minute read
Le patient peut-il avoir son mot à dire?
Doctorless clinics.
7-minute read
Le système de santé québécois est-il si mauvais? Et pourquoi?
Seven reform ideas to improve health care for all Quebecers.
5-minute read
Comment combattre la corruption ?
How increased competition and a smaller regulatory state can reduce corruption.
6-minute read
France : pourquoi autant d’opposition à la loi Travail?
The singular nature of French labor laws.
8-minute read
Viewpoint – Less Regulation and More Competition to Curb Corruption
There have been several corruption scandals in Quebec and in the rest of Canada in recent years. Corruption is a problem that affects all countries and all societies, but it is much more prevalent in certain regions than in others. Economic analysis has several things to teach us about these disparities and about economic principles that can check this scourge.
8-minute read
Viewpoint – Funding Hospitals Based on Services Rendered
Quebec’s Health Minister, Gaétan Barrette, recently announced that the government wanted to transform the funding method for medical facilities in the health network by adopting activity-based funding, a model which the MEI has analyzed a number of times in recent years and which is the norm in most industrialized countries. This is a step in the right direction when it comes to reducing waiting times in Quebec hospitals.
5-minute read
Quand le patient devient payant pour un hôpital
Activity-based funding of hospitals could help reduce wait times if accompanied by other, complementary measures.
15-minute read
Super Nurse Clinics: A Flexible Solution for Improving Access to Health Care
Quebec’s Health Department is senselessly blocking the opening of clinics run by nurse practitioners who specialize in front-line care. Yet these doctorless clinics would respond to real needs among the population, access to front-line care being one of the main failings of Quebec’s health system. Moreover, a nurse practitioner costs the health care system around 1/3 of what a general practitioner costs, shows an Economic Note published by the MEI.
7-minute read
Cliniques d’infirmières praticiennes – L’entêtement bureaucratique du ministre Barrette
It is difficult for innovative solutions like nurse-led clinics to establish themselves in a bureaucratic health care system.