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Birth control coverage absent from provincial budget, leaving election promise unfulfilled
Free contraception remains an unfulfilled election promise for Premier Susan Holt's Liberals. The provincial budget, released last week, doesn't include ...
Tag: Pharmacare
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Insurance industry association tapped former senior government official to lobby province against pharmacare [video]
The health insurance sector has upped its lobbying efforts in New Brunswick in opposition to universal pharmacare, government records show. ...
Insurance lobbyists ramped up ‘pressure campaign’ against pharmacare ahead of federal budget: Council of Canadians
The insurance industry has lobbied policymakers about pharmacare dozens of times since the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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