REPORT: Why Canadians need a national pharmacare program

[Oscar]

A Prescription for Better Medicine: Why Canadians need a national pharmacare program

[ http://canadians.org/pharmacare-report ]

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

QUOTE: In modern health care, appropriately used prescription drugs are an essential component to health and well-being. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that all nations should ensure universal access to necessary medicines through pharmaceutical policies that work in conjunction with broader systems of universal health coverage.1 The gaps in our current system exacerbate inequalities rather than prevent them, as “Canada’s health care system is not the universal equalizer we like to think it is.”2 "