E minus 48 Days: Opinion on Pharmacare

[dewline]

I want this to be reality...or better than this if we can get it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/elizabeth-may-speaks-on-pharmacare-in-halifax-1.3210671

More on other stuff after work, if I can brain properly.

Comments

[seawasp]

Can't watch the video at work, but what's "pharmacare" as opposed to healthcare? You guys have a national single-payer healthcare program, right? (Unlike us in the supposedly-advanced United States)

The status of limitations

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Pharmacare is a proposal to bring prescription drugs under the "single-payer healthcare program" here in Canada.

Yes, we have a single-payer program, but it is (of course - we live in a finite universe) limited in terms of what is covered.

In Canada, non-emergency dental care, eye care and prescription drugs all remain outside the purview of the public system. (As an example, I am about half-way through about two-months' wages worth of dentistry.)

Without having watched the video, I feel confident in asserting that May is making the case for bring prescription drugs into the publicly funded medicare system. And I'm all for it.

Re: The status of limitations

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Makes perfect sense.