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Originally Posted by calculoso
Couple of comments…
Healthcare is a provincial responsibility, so a large amount of blame falls at the feet of the UPC (and Doug Ford in Ontario)
That said, I definitely think we should have a national procurement strategy and regulation to ensure that minimum levels of service are being delivered - not just for medication but for services. Unfortunately I don’t think the provinces (particularly Ford, Smith, Moe, etc) would allow that to be set up. Especially in the procurement area for hospitals, the feds should take charge like they did for the COVID vaccines, and let the provinces deliver the goods. Maybe they are, I don’t know…
Of course, the private enterprise producing these items adds another billion layers of complexity, especially in the current “just in time” and “no waste” environment. Over production is not acceptable but then shortages are a real risk.
It all needs to work together to work… or in this case not work
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Tripping over yourself to make excuses for the Liberals incompetence.
Health Canada has the power, means & resources for drug procurement.
Have you not been paying attention to how we obtained COVID vaccines the past 2 years? Why is this any different?
And after that, yes it is absolutely also a provincial problem.
But blows me away that people are making excuses for Health Canada, a federal organization, when they have literally come out and said they have actually managed to get off their ass and managed to secure some supply on certain items.