Some 45 per cent of immigrant part-time workers lacked drug coverage, compared to a quarter of their non-immigrant counterparts. Four in 10 young part-time workers also reported that they had no medication coverage, compared to 19 per cent of part-timers over 65. Overall, the findings showed that medication coverage improves with age. But because more women are in part-time work than men, the absolute number of part-time female workers without coverage was almost twice that of men. “But we don’t see the way that we provide medication coverage adapting and changing with those realities,” Cheff said.

Source: thestar December 05, 2019 09:56 UTC