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Community connectors are known by various titles such as community service workers, link workers or system navigators. They are specialists in preventive and social care. (Shutterstock)

Why increasing Canada’s health budget for preventive and social care makes sense fiscally and medically

Rylan Egan, Queen's University, Ontario and Madison Lavergne, Queen's University, Ontario

Supporting preventive and social care through investment in community connectors addresses the root cause of health issues, lowers future curative costs and provides better value for taxpayers.
Québec Premier François Legault chairs a premiers virtual news conference as premiers Brian Pallister, Manitoba, and Doug Ford, Ontario, are seen on screen on March 4, 2021 in Montréal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

The disingenuous demands of Canada’s premiers for $28 billion in health-care funding

Tom McIntosh, University of Regina

The premiers are demanding more funding from the federal government for health care. Yet more cash without real change would be the real betrayal of Canada’s public health-care system.
Coverage for essential and effective medications would be the “ounce of prevention” that is worth a pound of cure in our cash-strapped Canadian health-care system. (Shutterstock)

National pharmacare will save money and lives

Wasem Alsabbagh, University of Waterloo

Some Canadians go without heat and food to buy their medications. Others simply don’t take them because they can’t afford to. This is why we need a national pharmacare plan.

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