Posts Tagged ‘pharmaceutical’
Canada is failing to meet the moment on the cost of medication
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
They have threatened repeatedly that these reforms will halt the entrance of new drugs into the Canadian market and… will hamper “the country’s ability to attract investment to our life-sciences sector.”… threats like this are only rhetoric, not reality. Britain, Sweden and France have all achieved lower drug prices while maintaining higher rates of research and development than Canada.
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Better for Workers, Better for All? Assessing a Portable Health Benefits Plan in Ontario
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
Millions of workers in Ontario have no access to supplemental health and dental benefits that reimburse most costs for prescription drugs, dental, vision and mental health services… One solution is a portable health benefits (PHB) plan that allows a worker to maintain coverage while moving from job to job… This commentary explores the purpose, structure and feasibility of a portable health and dental benefits plan in Ontario.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical
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Province changing health-care status quo: MPP
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
… Your Health: A Plan for Convenient and Connected Care… lays out a broad series of initiatives that will provide the right care in the right place, deliver faster access to care and hire more health-care workers… the plan includes expanding the role of pharmacists… Youth Wellness Hubs; and expanding team-based care through Ontario Health Teams to better connect and co-ordinate people’s care within their own community.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Health-care reform needs the discipline of deadlines
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Health-care needs more money. But money without the certainty of reform merely sets up the next cycle of failure. Political pressure might force each participant into agreeing to hard targets for improvement by set dates, before money is allowed to be on the agenda… The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) exists, in part, for just such a task. A rolling 12-month evaluation on progress toward agreed targets could become a permanent feature of Canadian health care.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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The pandemic worsened access to medicine for close to 1 in 5 people
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Percentages of people reporting not having prescription insurance to cover medication cost was higher among immigrants (29%) relative to non-immigrants (17%) and among racialized persons (29%) relative to non-racialized and non-Indigenous persons (17%)… The new findings should instill added urgency in the federal government which has promised to make progress on a national universal pharmacare program
Tags: Health, immigration, Indigenous, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Tackling the opioid crisis
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
… statistics point us to two solutions: First, we need to regulate, rather than criminalize, all psychoactive drugs, and second, we ought to provide a safe supply of drugs to users. Those two solutions were, respectively, the “core” and “urgent” priorities identified by an expert task force last year, but so far, Ottawa has done relatively little toward making them a reality.
Tags: corrections, Health, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Don’t be scared into supporting privatized health care
Monday, September 12th, 2022
The privatization options will not begin to address the problems of a demoralized and depleted health care workforce and the overzealous constraints on public health care spending and will have negative consequences for both equity and efficiency. Debating private care options is a wasteful distraction.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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How will Canada expand a health-care system that’s already struggling?
Saturday, September 10th, 2022
Everyone should have access to routine dental care and vision care and necessary medications — and other things, like mental-health supports and physiotherapy… This is important on humanitarian grounds. It would also, though, optimize the primary-care system: a person who is kept out of hospital by proper dental care means one more bed available for someone who truly needs it.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Reforming our approach to drugs
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
… while study after study confirms that criminalization has no effect on drug usage rates, it has created a vast transnational network of organized crime… the federal government’s expert task force last year recommended an end to our century-long experiment with prohibition. As its “core priority,” the force recommended Canada “immediately develop and implement a single public health framework with specific regulations for all psychoactive substances, including currently illegal drugs as well as alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis.”
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Healthcare needs collaboration, not finger-pointing
Monday, July 18th, 2022
The health-care crisis is different in nature from the pandemic, but alike in urgency. As such, it is a challenge of sufficient scale and complexity to be addressed at the first ministers’ level. This is especially true when [negotiating] pharmacare and national dental care programs… Collaboration on those files and addressing the crisis must involve more than cheque-writing that pours more money into systems proving inefficient. It must involve systemic and structural reforms to help make the healthcare system more sustainable – and easily accessible.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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