Blog Post - Canada's Pharmacare: Overpromised and Underdelivered

On April 19th, 2021, the Liberal government tabled the federal budget. This was the first budget proposed in two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, the Liberal government had established the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. In 2019, the Council had released its final report. Unsurprisingly, the report detailed many of the same problems health and public policy scholars have been highlighting in their research. Canadians had spent 34 billion dollars