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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I just don’t see how you have yourself convinced that improving healthcare is not going to improve healthcare. Your position makes absolutely no sense on this.
Pharmacare isn’t some luxury item that is just a take-it-or-leave-it kind of frivolity. It has a direct impact on healthcare, everything from wait times to the number of doctors, nurses, hospital beds, etc that we need.
Saying “no thanks” to the things that actually prevent people from needing the hospital in favour of making hospitals bigger seems unjustifiable. Give me a good reason why it isn’t.
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Eighty percent (80%) of our population are already covered for pharmacare. I believe the remaining 20% can be covered in a much less financially onerous way than providing free drugs to everyone, and being paid out of the public purse.
I guess I don't see the degree of health benefits in providing free drugs to the 20% as you do. A high portion of the 20% are younger, healthy people who don't really require all that many drugs.
Also, have you accounted for the disruption to the private insurance companies that presently provide the pharmacare funding?
I guess I am more concerned in the funding of our present healthcare situation. I have suffered from cancer, and I know about the agonizing period when you wait for treatment.