Opinion: It’s time for Canada to embrace universal pharmacare and protect drug coverage from corporate erosion
Changing health care takes leadership and the ability to stand up to a private sector that knows how to exert pressure. But it has been successfully done before.
President Trump recently unveiled an executive order — originally titled “Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction” — that calls for expanding private coverage rather than moving toward single payer, publicly funded “Medicare for All.” In Canada, we are working on protecting Medicare — our country’s publicly funded health care system — from corporate encroachment.
The worst aspect of Canadian health care today is the part that is outside of our single-payer system: prescription medicines. Currently, the
