Health care is more than treatment—it’s time to get serious about disease prevention

Pharmacare would provide access to drugs for those who are already sick. We are not focusing sufficiently on preventing people from becoming sick in the first place.

Health Minister Mark Holland holds a press conference at Ottawa's Centretown Community Health Centre on Feb. 29. By investing our health-research dollars in a laser-focused way, we could actually be able to prevent future MS cases, writes Pamela Valentine. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PAMELA VALENTINE

May 1, 2024

The big news in health care these days is national pharmacare. This is surely welcome news for those of us living with any chronic illness. National pharmacare offers a dream—perhaps unrealistically, given the cost—that one day Canada might have a universal prog...

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