Opinion: Health centralization is opposite of what's needed

Health Minister Gaétan Barrette is currently piloting Bill 130, which curtails the autonomy of doctors and gives the health minister the right to make changes to the internal rules governing health establishments. This is the just the latest of countless attempts in the past three decades to reform the province’s health-care system. The reason for this governmental hyperactivity is simple: There are multiple systemic problems, especially in terms of long emergency room wait times an