Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2018
More talk about universal pharmacare in Canada, but still no action
20 April 2018 - Canada may not have the world’s best health system but there is one area where we know no equal: Writing reports on how we could do better.
Since the Royal Commission on Health Services issued its recommendations on reforming still wet-behind-the-ears medicare in 1964, there have been dozens upon dozens of earnest reports, each saying more or less the same thing and each greeted with bons mots, then dutifully filed on a dusty shelf.
On Wednesday, we racked up another medal in the navel-gazing Olympics with the release of Pharmacare Now: Prescription Medicine Coverage for All Canadians.
