A prescription for equity: ensuring young Canadians’ health through National Pharmacare

A public pharmacare program that provides coverage for all Canadians, regardless of age, occupation, or income, would alleviate financial burdens and allow people to choose jobs based on the work and wages, rather than the cost of the company drug plan.

On Dec. 12, Health Minister Mark Holland, pictured, said his government is unlikely to pass pharmacare legislation by the end of the year—a deadline imposed by the NDP as a condition of the supply-and-confidence agreement between the two parties.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEVE MORGAN, MAEL HOUCK, HALEEMA AHMED

December 13, 2023

More than half of working-age Canadians are millennials or Generation Z. Yet, they seem to be overlooked in di...

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