A prescription for better health care

Even before the pandemic, Canada desperately needed improvements in long term care, mental health care, primary health care, and pharmacare, writes Steve Morgan

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos pictured during a media availability after the swearing in of the Liberal cabinet in the Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa on Oct. 26, 2021. Canadian households would save over $1-billion per year in out-of-pocket medicine costs and employers and unions would save over $3-billion per year.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Steve Morgan

October 29, 2021

For the sake of Canada’s health care system, it is time for the federal government to get serious about national pharmacare. Yes, pharmacare. Here’s why.

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