Are insurance companies trying to ‘strong arm’ New Brunswick into rejecting pharmacare?
Health Minister John Dornan told public health care activists this week that the health insurance industry may respond to pharmacare ...
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Health Minister says pharmacare would cost ‘more than we have’ as drug coverage deal stalls
Health Minister John Dornan says cost concerns explain the province’s delay in signing a pharmacare agreement with the federal government, ...
Will the new Liberal government in New Brunswick reform health care?
New Brunswick elected its first woman premier on Monday night. Susan Holt with the Liberal Party won a majority government. Holt ...
Finding the joy in long-term care with Pat Armstrong
A personal support worker lost so many residents in her long-term care home during the onset of COVID-19 that she ...
Pharmacare: Radical is the only way forward
Canada prides itself on being a nation with free health care, however it is not completely free, is it? If ...
NB Update #4: Universal pharmacare long overdue, says labour leader [video]
On this edition, the NB Media Co-op brings you perspectives from the labour movement about proposed anti-scab legislation, the travel ...
Pharmacare bill stalled in Senate as lawmakers leave for summer break [video]
Parliament has wrapped up for the summer without the passage of a long-awaited national pharmacare bill. Supporters say Bill C-64 ...
Pharmacare can’t leave children behind, says New Brunswick pediatrician
Recently, the federal government introduced Bill C-64, An Act Respecting Pharmacare, which proposes the foundational principles for a pharmacare program ...
97 per cent of Canadians have drug coverage and other lies drug manufactures are pushing
Editor’s note: This commentary was first published by the Toronto Star on July 31, 2023. One in five Canadians had ...
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