{"id":935393,"date":"2026-10-16T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935393\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:40:12","slug":"drimonis-quebec-cannot-afford-to-skimp-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935393\/","title":{"rendered":"Drimonis: Quebec cannot afford to skimp on health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that the provincial election is done, let\u2019s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And why Quebec women are being shortchanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year after the Institut national d\u2019excellence en sant\u00e9 et en services sociaux (INESSS) recommended adding women 45 to 49 to Quebec\u2019s breast cancer screening program, that age group remains excluded, as <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/sante\/2026-10-08\/cancer-du-sein\/pas-de-depistage-systematique-pour-les-45-a-49-ans-malgre-une-recommandation-de-l-inesss.php__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!F7rPkQaJRGNJXmOHUYacBaOcmOGBRWzzu-zOXY_920trp8t4byfsR8eGVsYbju1FHFTOvDE4fZSuYXnSSGZG%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">La Presse recently reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec has one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/article\/regions-in-canada-that-face-the-highest-rates-of-breast-cancer-study-reveals\/__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!F7rPkQaJRGNJXmOHUYacBaOcmOGBRWzzu-zOXY_920trp8t4byfsR8eGVsYbju1FHFTOvDE4fZSuYSY32CWE%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">highest rates of breast cancer <\/a>in the country, yet we remain the only province where a medical prescription is required for women between the ages of 45 and 49 to access screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the provincial election is done, let\u2019s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,218268],"class_list":["post-935393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-quebec-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935393","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=935393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}