Martin: Pharmacare proposal is a victory for Canadian patients

It isn’t easy being a patient in the Canadian health system. For all our collective achievements, being sick is still frightening, the processes confusing, the terminology indecipherable. We are lucky that we don’t risk financial ruin because of an ICU stay or a course of cancer treatment, but the financial burden of illness exists nonetheless, in terms of missed time at work, the need for additional paid child or elder care, and of course, drugs. Read More