15 Jul Three simple ways to improve medicare

Family physician Danielle Martin, founder of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, offers three straightforward ideas to improve Canadian health care.

Martin’s Rx: (1) Bring down the cost of the 20  highest impact generic drugs, which are currently priced in Canada far above world levels; (2) Heed provincial medical society cautions about medical interventions of dubious value; and (3) Get serious about fighting poverty, with tax-administered low-income income assistance.

Martin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, and at U. of T.’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Information, won praise in March for her effective response to hostile questions from a Republican US Senator at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging.

H/T: Dr. Monika Dutt