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RSS FeedsTrudeau says Liberals are committed to launching a national pharmacare plan to ensure drug coverage for Canadians
(The Star Food)

 
 

13 june 2019 00:57:00

 
Trudeau says Liberals are committed to launching a national pharmacare plan to ensure drug coverage for Canadians
(The Star Food)
 


OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberals are committed to instituting a national pharmacare program, setting the stage for a political battle with the Conservatives in the fall federal election.Trudeau told the House of Commons Wednesday his government will move forward with a pharmacare program after an advisory committee’s report recommended extending prescription drug coverage to all Canadians.“This report is an important step to lay the foundation of a national pharmacare program for us. We are going to continue to make sure that Canadians can afford their medication as we move forward,” Trudeau said during question period. “We recognize that Canadians should never have to make the impossible choice between paying for their medications or putting food on the table,” he said.While such a system would cost the federal government billions of dollars annually, Dr. Eric Hoskins — the former Ontario health minister that headed the advisory committee — warned that the current patchwork of public and private prescription drug coverage is unsustainable.“(The costs) will be significantly less than if we do nothing,” Hoskins told reporters at a press conference in Ottawa.“We recognize that there are incremental costs, significant incremental costs to building national pharmacare, but these costs are already being paid by Canadians. We are confident that the implementation plan we’ve put forward … fair and sustainable and accessible to Canadians.”In its final report released Wednesday, an advisory council appointed by the federal government called on Ottawa to work with the provinces to establish a single-payer, public system of prescription drug coverage.The system would provide coverage for a national list of prescription drugs and related products to ensure all Canadians have equal access to medicines — a list that would start with a smaller group of “essenti ...


 
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