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National Pharmacare – Time to Get on With It
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
National pharmacare is overdue. In 21st century healthcare, drugs are not a luxury nor a discretionary add-on. They are an essential part of healthcare delivery that should be covered universally. Canadians have already waited too long, and far too many of them don’t get the medication they need to stay healthy and manage chronic disease. The federal government can act as a catalyst by making a credible and responsible financial commitment… to improve public plan coverage.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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National Pharmacare – Time to Get on With It
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
The federal government can act as a catalyst by making a credible and responsible financial commitment that opens the door to joint work with provinces and territories to improve public plan coverage. The PEI agreement is a good model and federal legislation can help to create a positive foundation for collaboration. The political window to move things forward is open, but not for long.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Budget officer estimates cost and savings of single-payer pharmacare
Thursday, October 19th, 2023
The PBO says, “Upon the implementation of a single-payer universal drug plan… we estimate the incremental cost to the public sector (that is, federal and provincial governments) combined to be $11.2 billion in 2024-25, increasing to $14.4 billion in 2027.” In terms of the economy as a whole, the PBO estimates cost savings on drug expenditures of $1.4 billion in 2024-25, rising to $2.2 billion in 2027-28.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical
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Montréal’s ‘mixed’ police squads don’t help the city’s unhoused people — they cause more harm
Monday, October 9th, 2023
The squads add a layer of surveillance and harassment that leads unhoused people to leave the spaces they know best and distance themselves from their support network in order to avoid police… the report calls for a new approach to homelessness, including abolishing mixed squads and reallocating their funding to two types of interventions.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty
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Early indicators of dementia: 5 behaviour changes to look for after age 50
Monday, October 2nd, 2023
… dementia is predicted to affect one million Canadians by 2030… dementia isn’t an individual journey. In 2020, care partners — including family members, friends or neighbours — spent 26 hours per week assisting older Canadians living with dementia… These numbers are expected to triple by 2050, so it’s important to look for ways to offset these predicted trajectories by preventing or delaying the progression of dementia.
Tags: mental Health, Seniors
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Shortcomings in Seniors’ Care: How Canada Compares to its Peers and the Paths to Improvement
Thursday, September 28th, 2023
Overall, Canada ranks 8th out of 11 countries included in the survey… While Canada generally performs well in the care process category, it performs poorly in terms of access to care and equity, with no provinces reaching the international average in either category. Addressing access challenges for seniors through improved continuity of care, affordability and reducing wait times would improve Canada’s rank.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, Seniors, standard of living
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Mental health and prison: a tragic cycle that repeats itself
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
… when offenders are released, they often return to the same circumstances — homelessness, unemployment, drug use, lack of mental health care — that led to their offending in the first place.
Post-release treatment must therefore be just one part of a more comprehensive community effort, one that attends to the health, housing and employment needs of offenders.
Tags: crime prevention, housing, mental Health
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To reduce rising crime rates, Canada needs to invest more in social services
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Rather than continuing to spend on reactive models such as policing that do little more than criminalize poverty and disadvantage, we need to reinvest in preventive strategies that actually work. To prevent crime, governments need to invest more in existing social welfare programs and reestablish social services such as basic income… The provision of basic income and social services would both support vulnerable populations and be cost-effective.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, ideology, mental Health, poverty
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Health Coalition wants $3.5 Billion in Budget for Pharmacare
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
If accepted, the government would fulfill a key recommendation of the 2019 Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, led by Dr. Eric Hoskins, which estimated that it will cost an additional $3.5 billion to launch national pharmacare starting with universal coverage for essential medicines. Here are the coalition’s four recommendations…
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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COVID-19 response should highlight what went right in Canada
Thursday, August 10th, 2023
TheStar.com – Opinion/ Contributors August 10, 2023. By Kwame McKenzie, Contributor I am concerned that while we focus on relitigating the past we will allow useful, effective pandemic innovations to wither and die. Over 53,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Canada, with more every day. It has been a traumatic time and we have just […]
Tags: economy, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical
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