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Originally Posted by Azure
Should also be done on a provincial level.
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I'm quite biased, but I think BC's means tested Fair Pharmacare is ideal. Make under 30k and you'll get help right away. Make 100k and your deductible is 6k. That way no one goes broke paying for drugs, but you're not stuck paying for medications for everyone.
Having said that, it's a) expensive, b) includes both drugs and pharmacy services, c) complicated. To nationalize, you'd first have to harmonize the formularies and that means telling a bunch of people that the meds they're on are no longer covered. That would cause hell. Next you're disappointing all the working people who thought this meant they'd have coverage.
In the end it'll be expensive and no one will be happy with the result, and you'll take political beatings for over promising and under delivering, yet still increasing the budget by billions