Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2019
Trudeau spreads the big Pharmacare myth that scores of Canadians can’t afford medicine
23 January 2019 - Across every income group, people pay more for media entertainment than prescription medicine.
The federal government’s Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare is expected to complete its work sometime this spring. That will be in time to get ahead of the fall election, in which the federal Liberals are expected to campaign partly on a promise to deliver national pharmacare.
It is hard to say what version of Pharmacare the council will recommend. But the primary model being considered is a universal public drug plan managed by the federal government that will entirely replace existing public and private drug plans. That is the same model that was studied by the Parliamentary Budget Officer and was recommended by the House of Commons health committee.
