Canadians 'Ripped Off' by Drug Companies? No Kidding.

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Canadians 'Ripped Off' by Drug Companies? No Kidding.

[ http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/07/Ca ... rug-Costs/ ]

While minister gripes about prescription drug bills, Tories ink costly corporate rights pacts.

By Murray Dobbin, August 7, 2015, TheTyee.ca

EXCERPT:

The Harper government is more at odds with Canadians over public health care than it is on any other issue. And pharmacare demonstrates this in spades. According to an Angus Reid poll in July, 91 per cent of Canadians support a national pharmacare program. [ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... e25509989/ ] Forum Research conducted a poll in June asking voters which issues would actually persuade them to alter their voting intentions. [ http://www.buzzfeed.com/emmaloop/a-new- ... .hfPaxaVeV ] Tied for first place with increasing Canada Pension Plan benefits and reducing the eligibility age for Old Age Security back to 65 from 67, was the establishment of a national pharmacare plan, "with 42 per cent of voters very likely to alter their voting intention for a party that promised to create such a plan."

So why are none of the opposition parties listening?