Show me something that’ll NEVER happen in the United States 👆🏾
ProofByVerbosity on
Anyone who slights this action and doesn’t acknowledge the good the NDP did here may want to get checked out for a bad case of partisanship
-CrusaderFTW on
Yea, fund birth control so your country continues to fall behind in replacement rate births and the government swells your country with immigrants changing your demographics forever.
agha0013 on
conservatives have already vowed to scrap this, and Alberta is already picking a fight over it, vowing to opt out, but demanding the federal funds that would have covered the Albertan costs.
It’s good progress, but it may be short lived (like the federal dental program) as the PP led CPC wants to undo all this stuff that might undermine their plans to keep selling this country out to the highest bidders.
Canada has the second highest drug costs in the world, following the US (though the gap is quite large) and part of that is because we have tens of thousands of different buyers across the country. Drug companies use that to their advantage to profit enormously. We need a single national buyer who can negotiate all the pricing in a single point, but the CPC (and conservative provincial) plans for the future are widespread American style for-profit healthcare at every level
AdeptNet6118 on
Because we care for each other.
Academic-Lack3676 on
Taxes are not free! where are they getting the money to pay for this?
Melstead on
Finally some good news
Down with the UCP they only want profit
verdasuno on
Great first step.
Now to expand PharmaCare to everyone that needs it for essential medicines. It’s what Tommy Douglas always planned as the next step after Medicare but died before it could be introduced.
boracay302 on
How about funding diet education….Diabetes is largely preventable by eating better
reifier on
If that includes the weight-loss drugs that’s gonna be a massive cost
BCOTB on
Great news! I can’t imagine living in a developed nation that thinks that letting people die over insulin is somehow acceptable.
Even if you don’t use these products – you almost certainly know someone that does. This is less stress for them, and more money in their pocket to spend on goods and services in your community.
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Good news regardless of your political leaning.
Meanwhile USA regressing to 1630s
Show me something that’ll NEVER happen in the United States 👆🏾
Anyone who slights this action and doesn’t acknowledge the good the NDP did here may want to get checked out for a bad case of partisanship
Yea, fund birth control so your country continues to fall behind in replacement rate births and the government swells your country with immigrants changing your demographics forever.
conservatives have already vowed to scrap this, and Alberta is already picking a fight over it, vowing to opt out, but demanding the federal funds that would have covered the Albertan costs.
It’s good progress, but it may be short lived (like the federal dental program) as the PP led CPC wants to undo all this stuff that might undermine their plans to keep selling this country out to the highest bidders.
Canada has the second highest drug costs in the world, following the US (though the gap is quite large) and part of that is because we have tens of thousands of different buyers across the country. Drug companies use that to their advantage to profit enormously. We need a single national buyer who can negotiate all the pricing in a single point, but the CPC (and conservative provincial) plans for the future are widespread American style for-profit healthcare at every level
Because we care for each other.
Taxes are not free! where are they getting the money to pay for this?
Finally some good news
Down with the UCP they only want profit
Great first step.
Now to expand PharmaCare to everyone that needs it for essential medicines. It’s what Tommy Douglas always planned as the next step after Medicare but died before it could be introduced.
How about funding diet education….Diabetes is largely preventable by eating better
If that includes the weight-loss drugs that’s gonna be a massive cost
Great news! I can’t imagine living in a developed nation that thinks that letting people die over insulin is somehow acceptable.
Even if you don’t use these products – you almost certainly know someone that does. This is less stress for them, and more money in their pocket to spend on goods and services in your community.