It is time for Canada to implement universal, single-payer, public #pharmacare.
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Dr. Eric Hoskins
@DrEricHoskins
Partner, Maverix Private Equity Former Chair, Federal Advisory Council on National Pharmacare Former Ontario Health Minister Public Health Doctor/Epidemiologist
Toronto, CanadaBorn November 29Joined August 2009
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“Beware the Stroke of the Pen” by Dr. Eric Hoskins
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My latest Medium article on post-pandemic regulatory changes in healthcare and how they are affecting healthtech companies.
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I hurt literally everywhere. Amazing show of courage and community today. Thanks to the organizers and the thousands of volunteers and supporters who kept us moving and in great spirits. #torontomarathon #towaterfront42k
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My iPolitics interview on #pharmacare and the Liberal-NDP Agreement.
Eric Hoskins is more optimistic about national pharmacare than ever ipolitics.ca/news/eric-hosk via
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This would be great news for the millions of Canadians without affordable access to prescribed medicines. #pharmacare
Liberals, NDP leadership have tentative deal to support Trudeau government to 2025 | CBC News
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My latest instalment on the Future of Health Care: Personalized Medicine.
link.medium.com/C6ge5gFW2nb #maverixpe
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Daily chart – Test results in American schools plummeted during the pandemic
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The first in a series of articles I am writing on The Future of Health Care: Digital Therapeutics. #healthcare #digital #maverixpe
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Here at Scotiabank Arena with my wife @DrSamanthaNutt vaccinating against COVID! Just hit #25,000! #datenight
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From my friend and business partner.
MAVERIX PRIVATE EQUITY — A VISION FOR CANADA | by John Ruffolo | Mar, 2021 | Medium
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‘I stubbornly didn't die': Canadian tech investor John Ruffolo's recovery from near-fatal accident - BNN Bloomberg
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The amazing story of my friend and business partner, John Ruffolo.
“A truck nearly killed him, but venture capitalist John Ruffolo has kept moving forward” - The Globe and Mail
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This may be one of the most important findings of the pandemic. Time to change to one-dose strategy?
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My spouse Dr Samantha Nutt in today’s Globe and Mail Report on Business talking about COVID’s devastating impact on Canadian charities. Still time to donate this year at warchild.ca !!!
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War Child’s big virtual gala is tonight at 8pm . Register at warchild.ca/risetogether
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GameChanger#2 - this one without the cold chain challenges...
Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective /via
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The light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel! This is the #GameChanger we have been waiting for.
Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective in trials - The Globe and Mail
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A great victory for Canadian Medicare. Access to health care should be based on need and not ability to pay. BC Supreme Court rules against private payment for medically necessary health care.
2020 BCSC 1310 Cambie Surgeries Corp. v. British Columbia bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/
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The post-pandemic future: Universal pharmacare will save Canadians billions of dollars per year
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“Racialized people make up 83 percent of Toronto’s COVID-19 cases”.
Race does not determine health outcomes — racism does. As medical professionals we see this reflected in stark COVID-19 realities and Suzanne Shoush
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Guelph company’s mobile COVID-19 test kit hits market and heads for Northern Ontario | The Star
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Ontario's hospitals are filling up, hampering the resumption of surgeries
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We need pharmacare now more than ever.
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PRESS RELEASE: Canada needs universal, public pharmacare now more than ever healthcoalition.ca/canada-needs-u Millions more people are now struggling to afford their medication. The government must take action now. #cdnpoli #cdnhealth
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If you believe we need pharmacare now, please retweet.
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We need universal, public pharmacare to help us recover from the #COVID19 crisis. No one should have to choose between putting food on the table and buying their medication. Read the joint statement signed by 185 organizations: healthcoalition.ca/pharmacare-now #cdnpoli #CDNhealth
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An important contribution to the discussion on COVID-19.
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Why Sweden’s COVID-19 Strategy Is Quietly Becoming the World’s Strategy - Foundation for Economic Education
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My latest opinion piece just published today. #COVID19
Opinion: Could COVID-19 be less lethal than we thought? - The Globe and Mail
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A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children's health and wellbeing thelancet.com/journals/langl
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In random test of 500 in Afghan capital, one-third has virus - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e
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Cancer deaths in the U.K. could rise by almost 20% over the next year as treatments are disrupted by the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, according to new research bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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Tragic Drop in Life-Saving Organ Transplants Amid COVID-19 Outbreak -
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Critically important perspective on COVID-19 by Dr. Johan Giesecke, head of the European Centre for Disease Control and a leading architect of the Swedish response to COVID-19.
The invisible pandemic - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance
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Our #1 priority has to be reopening our health care system to elective surgery, cancer care, specialty clinics and diagnostics.
‘Sacrificed in the name of COVID patients': Tens of thousands affected by surgery cancellations nationalpost.com/wcm/b2038086-4 via
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“Trust the public”. What a novel idea. Is Sweden an ‘outlier’ or ‘enlightened’? #COVID19
Sweden tames its ‘R number’ without lockdown | The Spectator
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Here’s my opinion piece on COVID-19 in today’s Globe and Mail.
Opinion: The evidence suggests there’s light coming at the end of Canada’s COVID-19 tunnel /via
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As a public health doctor and former Ontario health minister, here’s my perspective on where we are in the COVID-19 pandemic. It might just surprise you.
The evidence suggests there’s light coming at the end of Canada’s COVID-19 tunnel /via
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Let’s commit to testing all residents and staff in long term care homes (like Quebec), sufficient PPE and limiting staff movement between homes. Already, 79 long term care homes in Ontario have had COVID outbreaks.
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COVID-19 devastating care homes everywhere, despite advance warning bit.ly/2JZN8Y1 Via @LizBraunSun
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