Health and Hope Lobby participants report on what they heard and what’s next
More than 100 health care workers and public health care advocates met with 85 parliamentarians on February 13, 2024, about two weeks before Health Minister Mark Holland introduced Bill C-64, the Pharmacare Act, in Parliament. The Act includes Canada’s intent to work with provinces and territories to provide universal, single-payer coverage for a number of contraceptive and diabetes medications, which we felt was important progress.
Due to diligent reporting from lobby participants, we are able to provide this summary of what we heard from our meetings with MPs from the different parties and Senators.
Included in this summary are the opportunities to defend and expand public health care identified by provincial health coalitions and lobby participants during our lobby debrief.
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Tracy Glynn is the National Director of Projects and Operations for the Canadian Health Coalition
