Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals promised universal pharmacare in the last election campaign. The NDP has made it clear that its support is dependent on the government implementing national, universal pharmacare. That’s why the premiers insist that any national pharmacare scheme must have “adequate and sustained” federal funding. More specifically, it makes the creation of a national, universal, public pharmacare plan — that treats all Canadians the same no matter where they live — extraordinarily difficult. The question now is whether the Trudeau government can finesse all of this and manage to negotiate a meaningful pharmacare deal.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 20:57 UTC