Pharmacare really matters, and this is not it

Great to know Canada will help those families dealing with the additional costs of managing diabetes and great to know the cost burdens of preventative reproductive health care will be reduced, but the lost opportunity of really delivering pharmacare is tragic.

Health Minister Mark Holland, pictured Feb. 29, 2024, holding press conference at the Centretown Community Health Centre in Ottawa to talk about the government’s introduction of the Pharmacare Act.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

March 27, 2024

Greens have called for pharmacare longer than any other party in this Parliament. Not since the original creation of our universal, single-payer system had a party put pharmacare in its platform until Greens did so. We were convinced by the report Pharmacare 2020. P...

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