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Tax cuts won’t fix the affordability problem. Here are ten things that could.
Investment Annual cost Expand affordable child care $3 Billion Increase health care funding to keep pace with rising provincial health care costs $1.98 Billion Ensure…
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What do we want? Pharmacare. When do we want it? 2019.
I will never forget that time, years ago, when I went to the pharmacist’s counter to pick up my prescription, worrying about the cost during…
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Pharmacare costing: How to make universal, single-payer pharmacare work for households and employers
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USMCA and Drug Costs – Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma
The USMCA, or CUSMA as it’s known here in Canada, is slowly working its way through the U.S. “fast-track” ratification process. Once the U.S. International…
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Budget 2019: A small step on the long road to national pharmacare
For many observers, incremental change has come to define the federal government’s approach to policy change. With the release of this week’s federal budget, it…
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The quest for universal pharmacare
It looks like the snake oil salesman is about to gallop away with a tidy pharmaceutical profit once again.
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The opioid crisis and mental suffering
“Nobody’s saying that every traumatized person becomes addicted. I’m saying that every addicted person was traumatized.” – Gabor Maté
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Why high U.S. drug prices matter to Canada
Photo by ccPixs.com, Flickr Creative Commons. In the mid-1970s the average monthly cost of a cancer drug in the United States was about $100. By 1995 that…
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The Ford government’s superficial arguments against pharmacare
Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government is rejigging OHIP+, a modest but promising pharmacare policy introduced by the previous Liberal government, allegedly to make more efficient…
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Look upstream to improve mental health
“We need to look well beyond the health care system, to society as a whole.” “The physical environment also has an impact on mental wellbeing.”…
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The TPP and the cost of drugs
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