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Canada is wasting billions of dollars a year on prescription drugs

January 16, 2017
| A national pharmacare program would save the health-care system billions and improve the health of the one in 10 Canadians who can't afford the medication they are prescribed.
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Medical transport is an essential service, and properly so -- it's time to start treating it like one
By
David J. Climenhaga
| August 13, 2015

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So now we need to buy medical-travel insurance when we travel inside Canada?

Who knew?

Certainly not Amy Savill of High Prairie, 360 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, when she took off in July for a family reunion in Northern Ontario with, she believed, a couple months to go in her pregnancy, which was not the way things turned out for her or her baby.

Not most of the rest of us either, I'd wager.

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Weekly Pulse: Public insurance option not optional
By
The Media Consortium
| June 24, 2009

By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC Mediawire blogger

During a press conference yesterday, President Obama voiced support for government-administered health insurance for all who need it (aka the "public option"), as a key component of healthcare reform. Though Obama stopped short of threatening to veto a bill that didn't contain such an option, he said that a public option is needed to enforce market discipline. If the system is going to reform, the health insurance companies can't just keep selling the same bad coverage with bigger public subsidies for their monopolies. Essentially, Obama isn't about to force taxpayers to buy overpriced insurance from private companies.

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Weekly Pulse: The push for a public plan
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The Media Consortium
| June 17, 2009

Healthcare reform is back in the news, as Legislators and interest groups spar over the promised public component of Obama's healthcare plan. In very simple terms, this is a fight between groups with a vested interest in expensive healthcare and everyone else. This week, the American Medical Association warned Obama that a public plan could restrict patient choice. But for millions of Americans, getting a choice between healthcare and no healthcare wold represent a 100% increase in their healthcare options. Obama's public plan would also give people the choice of keeping their private health insurance. So, the public plan is an additional option, not a diminution of options.

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