{"id":303131,"date":"2025-11-24T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303131\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:22:09","slug":"quebecs-federation-of-family-doctors-latest-group-to-launch-legal-challenge-against-pay-reform-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303131\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec&#8217;s federation of family doctors latest group to launch legal challenge against pay reform law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The federation representing family doctors in Quebec has launched a legal challenge against a new law that sets physician pay according to performance metrics.<\/p>\n<p>The federation filed its appeal for judicial review on Friday and wants the law to be suspended until a hearing on it can be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The law known as Bill 2 has been in place since Oct. 25 and ties salaries to the number of patients served and their degree of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>The federation says the law has already had catastrophic impacts, prompting some to leave Quebec, take early retirements or turn to the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement on Facebook on Friday, it further warned the law could prompt clinic closures, jeopardizing the public&#8217;s ability to access essential care.<\/p>\n<p>Federations in Quebec representing medical specialists and residents, along with the association representing pharmacy owners, have also filed their own legal challenges against the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-303131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}