A family medicine clinic in Montreal is anticipating it will be shutting its doors due to Bill 2 – one of roughly 40 clinics across Quebec that have chosen that route, citing financial pressures.

The Santé Mont-Royal family health clinic is slated to close on April 1, with its owners forecasting a 45 per cent loss in revenue once Bill 2 fully takes effect in the new year.

Bill 2, introduced in October, ties part of doctors’ salary to meeting performance targets — a change critics say penalizes clinics already stretched thin.

“This entire new law that was non-negotiated, that was falsely conceived and thought out, is going to have a significant impact on us being able to provide care in a clinic,” said Dr. Mark Buch, the medical director and co-owner of Santé Mont-Royal.

And that clinic

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