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Canadians are one step closer to national pharmacare. The Trudeau government and the NDP recently introduced the first piece of the plan. Reportedly, this first piece will cover contraceptives and treatments for diabetes, although the government must still work out many details including the extent of coverage.
Although traditional “reference drugs,” which would be widely covered by a public plan, may work well for most patients, other drug options may not be available through pharmacare. Patients, of course, will pay the price. Canadians need only look to the United Kingdom where cancer survival rates are low compared to other industrialized countries, an outcome likely exacerbated by lack of access to medicines regarded as effective in other European countries.
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