Assessing Quebec’s healthcare spending needs

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.