Feds must expand pharmacare to include essential drugs for our deadliest diseases: cancer, heart conditions, and stroke

An expanded pharmacare framework offers a lifeline for millions of people in Canada. It is time for federal, provincial, and territorial governments to deliver it.

Health Minister Mark Holland, pictured. A 2024 Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart & Stroke revealed that one in four people in Canada either do not have prescription drug insurance or do not have enough insurance to cover their prescription medicines, write Andrea Seale and Doug Roth.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREA SEALE, DOUG ROTH

April 25, 2024

The federal government’s new pharmacare legislation is a historic step forward on the path to national, universal drug coverage. Through important collaboration between the NDP and the federal government, we’ve finally received a legislative framework intended to give ev...

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