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    1. PhysicsOne8547 on

      If you care about this program – email your MP if they are a liberal.

      Public pressure is what’s needed to make the liberals commit to their promise. This is probably the closest we’ve been to pharmacare since Medicare was introduced in the 60s. You can find your MPs email with a simple Google search!

    2. Godzilla52 on

      With Alberta and Quebec, & Saskatchewan effectively not opting in, the program was dead in the water anyways unless Ottawa was ready to fork out billions/tens of billions more dollars to get them to sign on. A lot of the provinces still want funding to fund their own version of public coverage, so it might honestly be more feasible for the government to make bilateral deals for those instead of an incomplete attempt at a national scheme etc.

      Likewise, I think this might be a good opportunity for the government to look at expanding Compulsory Licensing for pharmaceuticals to significantly boost the supply of generics in Canada since this would grealy improve supply and affordability of medications in Canada and could be fairly easily expanded with increased public coverage to create the most effective pharmaceutical policy etc. It’s also perfectly legal under WTO rules and various countries have utilized it successfully in various ways etc.

      With Canada and most peer countries facing their own looming issues of worsening pharmaceutical shortages, CL likely needs to be expanded regardless to increase drug availability etc.

    3. Justin_123456 on

      Really pathetic, but not surprising, that Mark Carney would choose to take money out of the pockets of diabetics and pass it on to his friends on Bay St. and the private insurance industry.

      Everyone wins when we pay for medications collectively through the government, and drive down costs.

      Patients win, tax payers win, Provincial health systems win, the only losers are the private insurers, and the financial institutions who profit from investing their premium pool.

    4. limadeltah on

      An absolute shame. I find increasing efforts to privatize profits and milk the working class for everything they’ve got unsurprising though.

    5. rageagainstthedragon on

      Cowardly move by Carney here, particularly after asking struggling Canadians to pony up cash for his new „wealth fund“

    7. doogie1993 on

      Another Carney special. I really wish the public hadn’t turned on Trudeau tbh. He was the best PM we’ve had in my lifetime and it’s a shame that Carney is undoing all of his policies, and we’re all worse off for it.

    8. MadDuck- on

      They’re also cutting the health transfer escalator back to Harper’s formula that was pretty controversial at the time.

      >The Canada Health Transfer (CHT) is projected to increase from $54.7 billion in 2025-26 to $67.5 billion
      in 2030-31, supported by the CHT growth guarantee of at least 5 per cent for five years (in effect
      from 2023-24 to 2027-28), after which it will grow in line with a three-year moving average of nominal
      GDP growth, with funding guaranteed to grow by at least 3 per cent per year.

    9. Aggressive_Bit_2753 on

      Couple of questions on this: (1) so what did jagmeet actually achieve then? Is this his legacy going down the drain?

      (2) As a socialist I was actually always a bit skeptical and pessimistic about the pharmacare plan. It did seem to me like it was something that could be massively expensive – healthcare in general is too expensive for the state, and there needs to be more conversations about how to reduce these costs, as opposed to simply throwing more borrowed money at it.

      Doctors cost too much, drugs costs too much, and end of life care costs too much. But these could all be made cheaper if we really tried. We could start cranking out more doctors from our medical schools to drive down their wages. We could choose to reject pharmaceutical IP agreements with the US in our ongoing trade talks & import more Indian generics (or make our own genetics), we could try to expand the availability and awareness of palliative care, etc.

    10. PineBNorth85 on

      Without provincial buy in it was never going to work. I’m not surprised. It was so limited it never would have helped me or anyone I know anyway.

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