This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Henrietta Cook reports on new data as to the number of people dying in hospitals as a result of the spread of COVID-19, while Adam Rowe reports on the CDC’s recognition that COVID’s human toll is paired with serious economic damage. And
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The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Jim Stanford writes about the evolution of political and economic thought toward accepting deficits as a readily affordable price of supporting people through a crisis and investing in Canada’s future. – D.T. Cochrane examines the NDP’s plans to close tax loopholes, and
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Canada could have universal drug coverage without raising taxes – Morgan
10 things we learned from last week’s Ottawa conference on drug coverage hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition and Carleton University: 1. The University of British Columbia’s Steven Morgan noted that if Canada were to adopt the UK’s public drug … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Pharmacare 2020: A remedy for an accident of history
VANCOUVER – Canada’s Medicare system stops the minute a doctor writes a prescription. On the second day of Pharmacare 2020, the talk turned to how we get to a quality system that will leave no Canadian behind, that will be … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Pharmacare 2020: The evidence is clear, but where is the political will?
VANCOUVER – Almost 10 per cent of Canadians never fill their drug prescriptions. They can’t afford it. We’re here in Vancouver for a unique forum to discuss what every major national health care system review over the last 50 years … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Canadians paying billions more for drugs without Pharmacare
UBC professor Steve Morgan has been writing a series of excellent BLOGs on Healthy Debate this month about the need for Pharmacare in Canada. As Morgan stated last November, our Medicare system stops the minute a doctor writes a prescription. While organized … Continue reading →
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