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When will Canada have national pharmacare?
22 April 2024 - Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2024
Drug insurance: a single payer pharmacare program would jeopardise coverage quality for 21 million Canadians
22 February 2024 - Imposing a single payer universal drug insurance plan on all Canadians would jeopardise coverage quality for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Feb 2020
Canada ponders a federal programme for pharmaceuticals
14 February 2020 - The country’s vaunted public health-care system has a big gap. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jan 2020
Morneau says Ottawa will need to work with provinces on issues like universal pharmacare
19 January 2020 - Finance Minister Bill Morneau said that the federal government will often need to work together with provinces ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2020
Is innovation causing accessibility, timing issues for private drug plans?
17 January 2020 - Pharmaceutical companies and private payers can interact in different ways to ensure the right drugs are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2020
Health insurance industry pooling mechanism makes high cost drugs accessible for record number of Canadians
14 January 2020 - The catastrophic expense of high cost drugs have been made affordable for a record number of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
9 December 2019 - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Innovative Medicines Canada bans members from paying doctors fees for IV infusions
11 December 2019 - Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to pay fees to Canadian doctors for overseeing intravenous ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
National pharmacare must come, even if some provincial governments are against it
10 December 2019 - Naysaying premiers were not elected because they opposed national pharmacare in the last round of provincial elections, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pharmacare with no new medicines
10 December 2019 - Meeting with pricing officials shows that government's true goal is to slash prices so low that no ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
B.C. wants federal health funding lift before national pharmacare program
3 December 2019 - B.C. wants more money from Ottawa for health care before a national pharmacare program is created, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Premiers want Ottawa to allow opt out for proposed Pharmacare plan
2 December 2019 - Canada's premiers say they want the federal government to increase health-care transfer funds by just over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Oct 2019
It’s time for Canada to embrace universal pharmacare and protect drug coverage from corporate erosion
28 October 2019 - President Trump recently unveiled an executive order — originally titled “Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction” — ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Canadian election clears path for universal drug plan
23 October 2019 - Canada’s Liberal government is more likely to pass a universal prescription drug plan after losing its majority ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2019
Which health care promises will the Liberals realistically be able to keep?
22 October 2019 - The Liberals have a number of significant health care-related campaign promises to live up to as ...