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NDP to campaign on pharmacare if it backs out of Liberal deal: national director
(www.winnipegfreepress.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Things people are desperate about: Housing, food prices
Things the NDP wants to campaign on: Prescription drug costs
I'm not saying prescription drug costs aren't an issue, nor that I don't think that pharmacare should be rolled in to our public healthcare system, but... Like... read the room, guys.
They’ve talked about those issues too.
Housing and food prices are complex market-driven issues that require a careful approach and messy compromises. Pharmacare can more or less be implemented with the stroke of a pen, if the political will is there. Going after easily solved problems over bigger but harder problems makes sense to me as a strategy, both in terms of politics and in terms of actually doing good.
Indeed. They may as well campaign on UBI too, since conspiracy theory believers probably wouldn't be the ones voting NDP anyway.