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BMC - Drug Shortage Overview - Health Canada (English)
Author(s): Best Medicine Coalition Rating: No Rating   Read Reviews  
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Canada’s national pharmacare plan – boon or bane? (English)
Author(s): Rawson, Nigel; Adams, John Rating: No Rating   Read Reviews  
Description: National pharmacare, as proposed by the federal government, will not improve patient access to innovative medicines without major changes to current gatekeeping practices. Without deeper reforms, it could make drug access worse for patients. Canadians used to be proud of their “national medicare,” but health care across the country is now in crisis (Angus Reid Institute 2023). There’s a significant shortage of doctors, nurses, and hospital beds, several million Canadians have no family physician (Duong and Vogel 2023), emergency rooms are overrun with people who have nowhere else to turn for medical treatment (Kirkey 2024; Zafar 2024), and wait times to see a specialist (assuming an appropriate one is accessible in your area) and for surgery are far too long (Moir and Barua 2023) such that patients can die before seeing a health care provider.
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