When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined a caravan of diabetics for a cross-border shopping trip to buy Canadian insulin, it was a deliberate attempt to publicize his proposed policies to reform healthcare. He likely had no idea that the ensuing …

The Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare has presented the federal government with its plan for the creation of a universal, single-payer, public pharmacare system. A government program that covers prescription drug costs for every citizen sounds very …

There was “nothing new under the sun” last week when Canada’s premiers turned their annual discussion to healthcare. The premiers made the standard pledge to ensure “their residents have access to timely, quality services consistent with Canada’s universal healthcare systems” …