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” — that calls for expanding private coverage rather than moving toward single payer, publicly funded “Medicare for All.”
In Canada, we are working on protecting Medicare — our country’s publicly funded health care system — from corporate encroachment.
The worst aspect of Canadian health care today is the part that is outside of our single-payer system: prescription medicines. Currently, the public purse covers only doctor and hospital services. Other health care needs, such as medications, are covered either out of pocket or through private insurance plans that are often purchased by employers.
