Non-profit cancer groups covering costs where ‘universal’ health system fails 

It is a disgrace Canada expects small patient groups to pick up the slack for significant cracks in our publicly funded health-care system.
Our government health and social care systems do not fully cover some essential prescription drugs and innovative therapies, home care, travel-related expenses to receive treatments, and more, write Kathleen Barnard and Louise Binder.

How do you tell a mother needing life-saving cancer treatment that you can’t help her because the funding simply isn’t there? Or the young man who can no longer work to support himself? What about the university student who has to put her education on hold to cover medic...

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