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Canada’s parliament has passed a bill that that will cover the full cost of contraception and diabetes drugs for Canadians.
The Liberal government said it is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national pharmacare programme.
But two provinces - Alberta and Quebec - have indicated they may opt-out of the programme, accusing Ottawa of interfering in provincial matters.
Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party is ahead in national polls by a wide margin, does not support the legislation.
Oh god, is that what you understood?
No. Give people who don’t have access to doctors more access. Everyone should be getting access.
My point was specifically towards using taxpayer dollars to pay for prolonging lifestyle related illness.
If we have the opportunity to get people off their meds and to a place of better health, we should go for it. But that’s not what happens when you simply enable people to continue with lifestyle related illness for their entire lives.
I’m talking about empowering those who have the option to better their health, not taking aware care from those who don’t.
How on earth did you come up with your assumption about what I wrote???
I’ve voted liberal for over 20 years and have no intention of voting for any other party. It’s OK to disagree with some things your party does, especially when there are better ways to get to a more ideal outcome. This is one thing I disagree on, because there ARE better ways to get to a better outcome.
I didn’t ‘misunderstand’ anything.
This is all on you buddy.
I think you must have, and it could be that I didn’t explain things properly.
But I want the healthcare system to make people healthy, not prolong their suffering. Who would be against that?
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I didn’t ‘misinterpret’ anything. You blamed people for having type 2 diabetes, added a quote you took out of context, and generally alluded to the assumption that anyone with type 2 diabetes should be left to their own devices.
A lifestyle disease, is, by its very definition, caused by the actions of the person (i.e. smoking, not exercising, poor eating habits, alcohol and drug use, etc.). If kids have it, then I’d blame the parents 100%.
This is a good thing to note, because that puts control in the patient’s hands.
If you read the article (by the Chief Medical Editor of Harvard Health Publishing…), you can clearly see that it wasn’t out of context at all.
Literally every major health authority, including diabetes orgs and the WHO, have published materials on preventing and reversing type-2 diabetes.
Assuming that someone wants to get better, the fact that anyone would have long-term type 2 diabetes is a failure of their doctor and the healthcare system that’s supposed to be helping them.
Again, you’ve misunderstood completely.
Knowing that Type 2 diabetes is both preventable and reversible should be encouraging to patients. Why on earth would anyone want to suffer through a lifetime of insulin dependency, potential for blindness and amputations, when they can reverse this terrible disease???
And crazy enough, the lifestyle changes that reverse type 2 diabetes are also the same lifestyle changes that prevent the other top killers: heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc.
Our healthcare system should be educating patients on how to get better, not sell them expensive drugs (at taxpayer’s expense).
We can disagree, sure, but no patient should be treated like they are doomed to sickness for the rest of their life.