First pharmacare deal is coming soon: Health Minister [Video]

Health Minister Mark Holland says the federal government will soon announce a deal with the first Canadian province to join the federal pharmacare system.

“There’s a couple of areas where I’m going to finally have some good news. One of them is on pharmacare,” Holland told a crowd at the SOS Medicare 3.0 Conference in Ottawa on Monday.

“I can tell you that we’re very close to signing the very first pharmacare deal in this country.”

Speaking to reporters afterward, Holland said the federal government was close to getting deals with a few provinces, as meetings accelerated “more intensely over the last couple of weeks” to get to the finish line on pharmacare.

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