Gilead Sciences announces its largest commitment to health equity for Australian and Canadian indigenous communities

23 July 2023 - $6 million USD in funding will help address health disparities among indigenous communities with a focus ...

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What happened to the promise of universal pharmacare?

25 November 2021 - Canada is the only developed country in the world with a universal health care system that ...

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UCP approves policy to create private health care system in Alberta

18 October 2020 - Alberta’s United Conservative Party has voted to approve a policy that supports creating a “privately funded ...

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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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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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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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Voters beware: national pharmacare is unnecessary, bad for privately insured Canadians and costly for taxpayers

18 October 2019 - Research has shown it would be less disruptive and less expensive to just fill the gaps caused ...

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