Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada must both defend the existing public health-care system as well protect its aspirations to creating a better one
Author: Steve Morgan
Dr. Morgan is a full professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed research papers and won more than $4 million in peer-reviewed research grants. He has provided policy advice and expert testimony to governments in Canada and abroad, and has twice represented Canada on pharmaceutical policy committees of the World Health Organization.
Why Canada needs universal pharmacare and how to make it happen
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prescription drug coverage for all would save lives, save billions of dollars, help businesses – and make our incomplete health system whole
Catastrophic pharmacare is a catastrophe
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why the provinces don’t need $3 billion in federal tax dollars for flawed prescription drug policies
Pharmacare is for kids too
Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you do if your child is sick and you must decide between buying prescribed medicine or food?
Canada’s $500-million drug problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Piecemeal drug insurance coverage costs cities – and taxpayers – plenty
Pharmacare is good for business
Reading Time: 4 minutes Businesses need help managing the complexity and high cost of drug benefits
Four ways to make pharmacare work for Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada only developed country with a universal healthcare system that does not include universal coverage of prescription drugs