The federal government is being urged to develop a pharmacare program in Canada for prescription drugs.
An advisory council, headed by former Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins, recommends it be a universal, single payer system beginning as early at 2022 and completed by 2027
Hoskins says :we are advising the federal government to move immediately and to engage and deliver national pharmacare at a pace the province and territories are enabled to.”
The report says such a universal plan would cost $15 billion annually when it is fully up and running, and save taxpayers about $5 billion a year with the average family saving $450 annually which Hoskins calls “enormous.”
He notes while “there are significant incremental costs to building national pharmacare…these costs are already being paid by Canadians.”
You can read the full report by connecting with the link provide in the tweet below.
The Council delivered 60 recommendations outlining the path towards implementing #pharmacare and is united in urging government to begin this work immediately. Read the full report: https://t.co/ZQGCgXvspL 1/4
— Dr. Eric Hoskins (@DrEricHoskins) June 12, 2019
Reported by Vic Krasowski
