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CMA’s welcome, if belated, change of heart on medicare
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Aug 06 2010
This week, the CMA released its latest prescription. Gone are the calls for private insurance and for-profit delivery. Gone are the illogical defences of queue-jumping. Gone is the innuendo that equity, the key principle that underlies the Canada Health Act, is not a legitimate objective. Instead, we see an embrace of the principles that underlie medicare, so much so that in a watershed moment, the CMA has rightly called for those principles to be extended to prescription drugs and long-term care.
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Three steps to make pharmacare a reality for all
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Feb 18 2010.
…why take an equitable approach to one prescription medication and continue the inequitable approach for all the rest
The eligibility criteria in our current patchwork system make little sense…
Most everyone agrees that leaving prescription medications out of medicare was a mistake. The thornier issue is how this mistake can be overcome.
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