School of Health Policy and Management, 7991York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Int J Health Serv. 2022 Jul;52(3):341-346. doi: 10.1177/00207314221100654. Epub 2022 May 9.
In March 2022, the New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada's social democratic party, and the centrist Liberal government signed a supply and confidence agreement. In return for the NDP agreeing to vote with the government on all crucial issues until June 2025, the Liberals pledged to bring in both pharmacare and dental care programs. Pharmacare, universal public insurance coverage for prescription drugs, had been promised for more than 50 years but never implemented, while public dental care was an almost completely neglected issue. This article explains the long genesis of pharmacare, the need for public dental care, and the political circumstances that led to the agreement. However, at this point, details about both plans are largely absent. As a result, how well those plans will serve the needs of Canadians is yet to be determined.
2022 年 3 月,加拿大社会民主党的新民主党(NDP)与中间派自由党政府签署了一份供应和信任协议。作为交换,NDP 同意在所有关键问题上与政府一起投票,直至 2025 年 6 月,自由党承诺引入药品保险和牙科保健计划。药品保险,即处方药的全民公共保险覆盖,已经承诺了 50 多年,但从未实施过,而公共牙科保健几乎是一个完全被忽视的问题。本文解释了药品保险的漫长起源、公共牙科保健的必要性以及导致该协议的政治环境。然而,目前这两个计划的细节在很大程度上还没有。因此,这些计划将在多大程度上满足加拿大人的需求还有待确定。