Multi-payer pharmacare will fail Canadians

Private insurers want Canada to embrace a multi-payer pharmacare system without the tools necessary to protect public interests, promote equity, and ensure value.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has been pushing the federal government for a public, universal pharmacare system through his party's supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals. Universal, public pharmacare is the fairest and most efficient way to provide all Canadians access to necessary medicines, writes Steve Morgan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEVE MORGAN

September 27, 2023

Private insurers and their consultants argue that national pharmacare should be modelled after Europe’s multi-payer social health insurance systems. This is a game of bait and switch: they want to sell private drug plans in a multi-payer pharmacare system without the regul...

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