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A demanding patient: Assessing Quebec’s healthcare spending needs

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  • Olivier Jacques
  • Philippe Chassé

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Rising costs and reduced budgets have been putting constraints on healthcare systems. This has led to governments making difficult trade-offs when it comes to allocating public funds. This is taking place both within the healthcare system and between different social missions such as education, pensions or social assistance. In a CIRANO study (Jacques and Chassé, 2025), the authors reveal that Quebecers by and large are very dissatisfied with the healthcare system. There is a strong public push for more spending on healthcare but an unwillingness to pay more taxes to support that new spending. L’effet combiné de l’augmentation des coûts des soins de santé et des contraintes budgétaires importantes limite les ressources qu’il est possible d’allouer au système de santé. Les gouvernements font donc face à des arbitrages difficiles lorsqu’il s’agit de répartir des fonds publics tant à l’intérieur du système de santé qu’entre différentes fonctions de l’État comme l’éducation, les retraites ou le soutien au revenu. Dans une étude CIRANO (Jacques et Chassé, 2025), les auteurs montrent que les Québécoises et Québécois se disent généralement très insatisfaits du système de santé et qu’il existe un fort consensus dans l’opinion publique en faveur de plus de dépenses en santé. Toutefois, ce souhait ne se traduit pas nécessairement par une volonté de payer davantage d’impôts pour soutenir de nouvelles dépenses.

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  • Olivier Jacques & Philippe Chassé, 2025. "A demanding patient: Assessing Quebec’s healthcare spending needs," CIRANO Papers 2025pj-10, CIRANO.
    • Handle: RePEc:cir:circah:2025pj-10
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