{"id":908189,"date":"2026-09-24T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:54:42","slug":"caq-plan-to-expand-private-health-care-could-lengthen-wait-lists-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908189\/","title":{"rendered":"CAQ plan to expand private health care could lengthen wait lists, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec Leader Christine Fr\u00e9chette\u2019s plan to expand private medicine risks weakening the public system and lengthening wait times for patients, a Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al health care researcher says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pitched toward the start of the election campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/a-caq-government-would-expand-private-health-care-funding-to-reduce-wait-times-frechette-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fr\u00e9chette\u2019s proposal<\/a> would allow doctors to operate a private clinic while still working in the public system, reversing a guardrail brought in by her own party in an attempt to keep doctors in public practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan would also see the province pay for more private-sector surgeries, picking up the bill at private clinics for patients who wait more than nine months for an operation on the public side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec Leader Christine Fr\u00e9chette\u2019s plan to expand private medicine risks weakening the public system and lengthening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,120789,218268],"class_list":["post-908189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908189","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=908189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}