When will Canada have national pharmacare?

22 April 2024 - Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it. ...

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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 ...

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Canada ponders a federal programme for pharmaceuticals

14 February 2020 - The country’s vaunted public health-care system has a big gap. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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” — ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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