Reading Time: 3 minutes A program to provide prescription drugs to all Canadians is wasteful and wrongheaded. We should simply be targeting those who need help
Tag: Pharmacare
All Troy Media editorial content that pertains to implementing a Pharmacare program in Canada.
Access to medications shouldn’t depend on your job
Reading Time: 4 minutes We could give politicians the same medication coverage plans as food servers and see if that speeds up their deliberations about publicly-funding medications
When prescriptions do more harm than good
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new national program has pharmacists dispensing advice on how to curb harmful medications, particularly for seniors
National pharmacare has the power to heal an ailing system
Reading Time: 4 minutes Universal drug coverage for Canada may offer a small personal loss for a few but a larger public gain
NAFTA renegotiations threaten Canada’s steps toward pharmacare
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada must both defend the existing public health-care system as well protect its aspirations to creating a better one
Proposed changes could reduce access to prescription drugs
Reading Time: 4 minutes While well-intentioned, changes to Patented Medicine Prices Review Board could stop companies from launching new drugs
Free medicines for rich kids is a fair and efficient policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Universality is no free ride for the rich. If everyone pays, say, a one per cent income tax for universal drug coverage, the millionaire will pay much more
Starting with kids defensible step toward universal pharmacare
Reading Time: 4 minutes But Ontario budget commitment won’t solve all the problems of drug access in Canada, not even in Ontario
Sustainable pharmacare requires a business-like approach
Reading Time: 3 minutes Out of control spending on Ontario’s drug plan could undermine efforts to provide coverage to all those in Ontario and across Canada
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