Kanada sollte National Pharmacare einführen. Was ist passiert?
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/15/Canada-National-Pharmacare-What-Happened/
Kanada sollte National Pharmacare einführen. Was ist passiert?
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/15/Canada-National-Pharmacare-What-Happened/
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Don’t you love woke austerity of liberals? When you don’t invest in a key aspect of health care that every other western country with universal healthvcare invests in which is drug coverage for all.
Instead we double down on an economically illiterate status quo with no emphasis on prevention and more focus on making it easier for drug companies to rip us off. Elbows down big time!
If every other country in Europe, and NZ and AU can figure out then oir excuses are nothing more than pathetic and show a lack of ambition and loser behavior.
ooh ooh I know! I know! The “natural ruling party” decided it no longer had to pretend it cared about the welfare of Canadians because Pierre Poilievre continues to exist?
This is why the Liberals fought against universal coverage of all drugs, when the NDP negotiated with them.
It’s harder to cancel a universal good then one that’s means-tested and patch-worked.
A big chunk of this could be paid for by making the OAS exemption limits lower. The 180K net ceiling is ridiculous. That being changed to 100K could generate $9B and help move a pharmacare plan forward,
Three provinces (Alberta, Quebec & Saskatchewan) effectively opted out and it would have taken years and tens of billions in additional transfer based incentives to get them onboard, while those provinces all generally preferred individual agreements with Ottawa to fund their own versions of public drug coverage etc. while there seemed to be no pathway in sight to get all three to come onboard etc. That basically left the federal program as an incomplete hodgepodge etc.
I wrote this idea in a different post on this, but the Fed should just halt the import of pharmaceuticals except through a newly created pharmaceuticals distribution center. That PDC will import all foreign pharma, and be able to buy in bulk, it’ll be nonprofit of course. Passing on the savings to the retailers in the provinces, who send their orders to the PDC. No opt-in by the provinces is needed, and the Fed is fully within its jurisdiction.