Canada’s parliament has passed a bill that that will cover the full cost of contraception and diabetes drugs for Canadians.
The Liberal government said it is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national pharmacare programme.
But two provinces - Alberta and Quebec - have indicated they may opt-out of the programme, accusing Ottawa of interfering in provincial matters.
Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party is ahead in national polls by a wide margin, does not support the legislation.
I didn’t ‘misunderstand’ anything.
This is all on you buddy.
doubtful. you are like you would yell “conservative!!!” at me if I didn’t approve of making cigarettes free by paying it from taxes, as a solution to a lot of people spending a lot on smoking
I think you must have, and it could be that I didn’t explain things properly.
But I want the healthcare system to make people healthy, not prolong their suffering. Who would be against that?
…and if they didn’t make the right choices, they can suffer more and die sooner. Good choices, there.
You said …
I didn’t ‘misinterpret’ anything. You blamed people for having type 2 diabetes, added a quote you took out of context, and generally alluded to the assumption that anyone with type 2 diabetes should be left to their own devices.
A lifestyle disease, is, by its very definition, caused by the actions of the person (i.e. smoking, not exercising, poor eating habits, alcohol and drug use, etc.). If kids have it, then I’d blame the parents 100%.
This is a good thing to note, because that puts control in the patient’s hands.
If you read the article (by the Chief Medical Editor of Harvard Health Publishing…), you can clearly see that it wasn’t out of context at all.
Literally every major health authority, including diabetes orgs and the WHO, have published materials on preventing and reversing type-2 diabetes.
Assuming that someone wants to get better, the fact that anyone would have long-term type 2 diabetes is a failure of their doctor and the healthcare system that’s supposed to be helping them.
Again, you’ve misunderstood completely.
Knowing that Type 2 diabetes is both preventable and reversible should be encouraging to patients. Why on earth would anyone want to suffer through a lifetime of insulin dependency, potential for blindness and amputations, when they can reverse this terrible disease???
And crazy enough, the lifestyle changes that reverse type 2 diabetes are also the same lifestyle changes that prevent the other top killers: heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc.
Our healthcare system should be educating patients on how to get better, not sell them expensive drugs (at taxpayer’s expense).
We can disagree, sure, but no patient should be treated like they are doomed to sickness for the rest of their life.
You assume that the article you referenced in your original post is the final say on type 2 diabetes.
I would recommend you do some more research on the subject.
From the Mayo Clinic
Most of those are quite literally lifestyle related. The others seem to be correlated, but not causal.
The consensus is that lifestyle changes, better than medical treatments, work better and should be the default.
One of my friends growing up had type 2 diabetes, got diagnosed at 6 years old despite otherwise being a normal, healthy, active, skinny little white girl from a middle class family who’s biggest diabetes-related crime in the normal person’s eye would be she had a fondness for hot chocolate and drank it as a treat a time or 2 a week, usually at church
No treatment for her, then, since clearly her lifestyle caused it? Or do you maybe not understand it as well as you think you do?