POL 4320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Optometry
8 Apr 2015
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Participation questions: we disagree with dr. goldman"s claim that most canadians would turn down a national pharmacare program. The economical benefits are hard to refute in the grand scheme of things. Even if taxes go up slightly, canadians would be paying less out of pocket for prescriptions. In terms of insurance offered by employers, this would open up funds for greater support for services that are not currently covered such as dental care and optometry. Some other barriers to implementing a universal pharmacare program might be regionalism (which regions of canada support a national pharmacare plan) and bureaucracy. If lobbyists (mainly pharmaceutical companies) successfully convince the majority of canadians that spending billion to save billion is a bad idea, then dr. Goldman"s assumption that canadians would never accept it is correct.
