Category: Health & Medicine

Pharmacare: 800 million dollars to save Trudeau’s government

TORONTO – Pharmacare: will free pharmaceutical treatments, even if only for diabetes (according to what emerged in the last days) be adequately covered? In the aftermath of the agreement reached between the Liberals and NDP on the issue of accessibility to certain drugs, the Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, assures that this initiative will not jeopardize the fiscal position of Canada – heavily indebted – as the federal government intends respect the spending rules decided in the autumn.  (more…)

CORRIERE CANADESE / Pharmacare, c’è l’accordo fra NDP e Liberali: per ora il governo è salvo

TORONTO – Il governo di minoranza di Justin Trudeau sostenuto dall’NDP di Jagmeet Singh è salvo, per ora: è stato infatti raggiunto un accordo fra Liberali e Nuovi Democratici sul pharmacare, l’accesso gratuito ad alcuni tipi di farmaci, sul quale l’NDP aveva dato l’ultimatum al governo Trudeau: o si approva entro il 1° marzo, o l’appoggio dell’NDP viene meno e si va a votare. Trudeau e Liberali hanno ovviamente ceduto, visto che se si andasse a votare adesso, sondaggi alla mano, i Conservatori stravincerebbero… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Pharmacare, agreement between NDP and Liberals: the government is safe, so far

OTTAWA – Justin Trudeau’s minority government supported by Jagmeet Singh’s NDP is safe, so far: an agreement has in fact been reached between the Liberals and New Democrats on pharmacare, free access to some types of drugs. On it, the NDP had given the Trudeau government an ultimatum: either it passes by March 1, or the NDP’s support fades and we go to vote. Trudeau and the Liberals have obviously given in: if we go to vote now, according to the polls, the Conservatives would win by a landslide.  (more…)