New health deal needs transparent monitoring and evaluation process to make sure health-care outcomes improve
Canada must provide timely, equal, and equitable access to resilient, safe health care while being accountable to the public.
Health Policy Briefing
Canada Disability Benefit needs to be hefty enough to lift Canadians with disabilities out of legislated poverty
The Canada Disability Benefit would provide regular income support to Canadians with disabilities aged 18-64 years, supplementing provincial or territorial disability assistance. The benefit could provide people with disabilities enough income to lift them out of poverty, but this can’t happen until Parliament passes Bill C-22.
Naturopathic medicine continues to be an emerging answer to Canada’s health-care concerns
Including naturopathic doctors in publicly funded primary health-care settings could be an achievable strategy to fill gaps in staffing and advance the movement toward individualized holistic care. But, to accomplish this, there must be collaboration with governments to improve access to and coverage of the services NDs provide.
Off label: the unintended consequences of label changes for consumers
While it is important for Canadians to be aware of the contents in products they consume, they already have the information they need to make informed choices.
Policies to protect kids’ health good for future health spending, too
Banning e-cigarette flavours and restricting the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children are vital to making our kids healthier adults.
Feds shouldn’t take food industry’s promise of good behaviour at face value
Despite voluntary code, the industry will continue to bombard Canadian children every year with millions of ads for unhealthy ultra-processed food and sugary drinks.
No movement on pharmacare calls Liberal-NDP deal into question
Without pharmacare, Justin Trudeau cannot claim to have delivered transformative change in Canada’s health-care system, and Jagmeet Singh cannot claim to have used his leverage through the confidence-and-supply deal to move forward on a progressive health-care agenda for Canadians.
PMPRB vacancies offer an opportunity for a course correction
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board just needs to stop trying to push an agenda and go back to doing its job as an impartial regulator that implements clear and predictable rules.
It will take action, not handshakes, to fix Canada’s health-care crisis
Increased federal health-care funding and bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories are welcome, but let’s not fall under the illusion that the health workforce crisis has vanished.
