Provincial governments asking for wrong thing from physicians

Governments should build the infrastructure to measure and monitor health outcomes so they can be used as the basis for incentives in a new pay structure.
Chris Simpson has some thought on how to get Health Minister Jane Philpott to stop calling Canada's health-care system mediocre.
Currently labeled by the federal minister as mediocre, health care in Canada should be producing world-leading rather than sub-standard health outcomes. To achieve this, provincial governments have to do much more than focus on physicians’ pay and reining in cost increases. They do have to hold t...

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