{"id":10760,"date":"2018-02-28T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:41:18","slug":"ontario-families-need-true-universal-pharmacare-now-ndp-health-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/ontario-families-need-true-universal-pharmacare-now-ndp-health-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario families need true, universal pharmacare now: NDP Health critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:39<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>NDP Health critic France G\u00e9linas said that Ontario families can\u2019t afford to wait for another federal study before they get the medicine that they need and called on the Wynne government to put Ontario first and support the NDP plan for true, universal pharmacare now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for national, universal pharmacare &#8212; but yesterday, the federal government chose to study this idea, again, without promising any action, any money, or any timelines,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cThat leaves millions of Ontarians between the ages of 25 and 65 without prescription drug coverage. That leaves people sitting at their kitchen tables, cutting their pills two to make the prescription last longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NDP Pharmacare for Everyone Plan would deliver true, universal pharmacare for all Ontarians so that both parents and their children can get the medications that they need. The NDP plan would cover everyone, regardless of age, income, job status or health status.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In question period on Wednesday, G\u00e9linas said that Ontario families can\u2019t wait for the federal government to act, and that Kathleen Wynne\u2019s plan to cut people off from drug coverage when they turn 25 is letting families down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA drug plan that cuts people off from drug coverage the day they turn 25 years old is not good enough,\u201d said G\u00e9linas. \u201cOntarians shouldn\u2019t have to settle for a plan that leaves people from the ages of 25 to 65 with no prescription drug coverage. That\u2019s not pharmacare &#8212; because real universal pharmacare is prescription drug coverage for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the federal government continues to study pharmacare yet again, instead of acting upon it, why doesn\u2019t this Premier have a plan for universal pharmacare right here, right now in Ontario?\u201d asked G\u00e9linas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:39 NDP Health critic France G\u00e9linas said that Ontario families can\u2019t afford to wait for another federal study before they get the medicine that they need and called on the Wynne government to put Ontario first and support the NDP plan for true, universal pharmacare now. &nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s time for national, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1286],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-ndp-pharmacare-for-everyone-plan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 03:43:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}