Need for national pharmacare plan just as urgent as it was in past elections

Let’s continue to think of all the lives that would have been better or made longer. Because pharmacare is the right thing to do.

Just as Lester B. Pearson and Tommy Douglas continued to soldier on for medicare more than 50 years ago, public-minded Canadians will continue to make the case for pharmacare until our lawmakers run out of reasons not to grant it, writes Anthony Pizzino. Photographs by Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY ANTHONY PIZZINO

September 15, 2021

Another election is fast going by and still no pharmacare plan. The case for it has been well-documented in study after evidence-based study for nearly 25 years. So nearly a quarter of Canadian households will continue to be unable to afford to fill their prescriptions. Canada will remain the only ...

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