Health Coalition seeks progress on Safe Long-Term Care Act in Budget 2022
The Canadian Health Coalition has delivered the following letter to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos
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Considering Québec’s version of pharmacare
25 years ago, in June of 1996, the Parti Québécois government set up the first pharmacare programme in North America
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Attach stronger strings to federal health funding for provinces, say Canada’s health care unions
Federal dollars [must] go to public health care and the people working in it
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Long-term care workers just want a fair deal, says USW
This is a gross injustice for workers who have spent the last two years struggling with COVID-19
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Public health care advocates support targeted federal spending boosts for provinces
Increased federal health transfers should be tied to better programs, such as pharmacare
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Health Coalition wins right to intervene in important refugee health care case
Case will support refugees’ right to medicare
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NUPGE report warns against privatization through virtual health care
The increase in ‘virtual’ health care during the pandemic is creating more private, for-profit delivery of health services
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How did “Big Pharma” delay cheaper drug prices, again?
Joel Lexchin tracks the extensive lobbying done by drug companies
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Unifor launches “Vaccine Access for All” petition
Sign the petition to urge Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly to support the TRIPS waiver
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CUPE calls for a higher priority and action on pharmacare
The Minister of Health has postposed regulatory changes that would have better protected the public from excessive drug prices… again.
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