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Hoskins steps down as health minister to head national pharmacare strategy
The federal government is eyeing a new, national pharmacare program and will name departing Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins to lead the effort. Hoskins, a doctor who was the key architect of the province’s OHIP+ providing free prescriptions for youth, announced Monday afternoon that he was stepping down as minister and MPP for St. Paul’s, effective immediately… “In politics in Canada, Eric Hoskins in particular has been the most ardent and most articulate champion of a universal pharmacare system”
Tags: budget, economy, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Motherisk Commission calls for sweeping changes to child protection system
After identifying 56 cases where families were “broken apart,” commissioner Judith Beaman’s report makes 32 recommendations to “help ensure that no family suffers a similar injustice in the future.” … The Ontario Motherisk Commission’s two-year effort to repair the damage to families ripped apart by flawed drug and alcohol testing has produced sweeping recommendations aimed at preventing a similar tragedy, but in only a handful of cases has it reunited parents with their lost children.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, women
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NDP’s universal pharmacare proposal seems a prime target for Liberal burglary
Canada is alone in having a public healthcare system that does not have a parallel public pharma plan. The House of Commons health committee is set to release a major report on pharmacare next month, which sources suggest will recommend folding prescription drugs into a negotiated national formulary. Through an amendment to Canada Health Act this would allow the provinces to administer the newly expanded coverage.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Universal health care’s humble origins
Viewed solely in economic terms, Britain could not afford the NHS in 1946. That the NHS was created speaks to a conscious decision on the part of government to prioritize health care and social services. Ultimately, what a society can or cannot afford is a policy decision… / The creation of the NHS was a courageous decision by the Labour Party to radically improve the lives of British people. It benefited most sectors of society – hence the continuing broad support for it.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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Is our health system destined to follow a U.S. trajectory?
Growing gaps in drug and dental coverage, especially for working-class Canadians with no or inadequate employer benefits, means more lower-income Canadians will skip trips to the dentist or won’t fill prescriptions. Wealth gaps among the provinces means Canadians in some regions will have access to better and more timely care than those in other parts of the country.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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NAFTA will undermine health unless Canada resists monopolies on medicines
There are two potential changes to NAFTA that threaten to derail progress toward affordable access to medicines: First, U.S. trade representatives are advancing Big Pharma’s demand for more restrictive intellectual property rules, pushing longer patent terms and “data exclusivity” rules… Second, business lobbies are pushing hard to maintain and expand the widely-denounced “investor-state dispute settlement” mechanism currently found in NAFTA.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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New CAMH centre focuses on treating adults with ‘childhood conditions’
Indeed, some 45 per cent of adults with developmental disorders — which also include such things as Asperger’s and Fragile X syndromes — suffer from concurrent mental health problems like anxiety, depression and addiction, Lunsky says. Yet there’s been sparse research and even less training into how these associated conditions can best be diagnosed and treated in developmentally disabled adults
Tags: disabilities, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, philanthropy
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The #metoo moment is important, but don’t forget the last one
The #metoo moment… is a consciousness-raising fuelled in its reach and breadth by social media. It is a generation of women who feel they were sold a bill of goods when they were told they were equal. They are asking us: “How can this be true when our lives are curtailed by sexual violence?” … Let’s build on the moment of shock and dismay to create an adequately funded national strategy that uses this moment of holding politicians… and leave a changed future for the women and men who follow.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, women
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Provinces Rank from Bad to Worse in Healthcare Survey of International Peers: C.D. Howe Institute
… Provinces’ overall performance ranks in bottom tier of advanced western countries, placing them only above the United States, and in some cases, France… despite medicare’s egalitarian principles, provinces have among the lowest equity scores across all Commonwealth Fund countries. Drug and dental care access is linked to income levels. After-hours access to a regular doctor and time spent with a physician also differ by income level.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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