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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2006-11-21 14:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. Penny Priddy (Surrey North, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"289707\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, in Canada we spend 17% of health care money on prescription drugs and only 13% on doctors. Simple economics tells us that when medication is bought in bulk, it will cost less for working Canadians. Logic tells us when drug patents are limited to reasonable duration, medication becomes cheaper. No one waiting for cancer should be forced into poverty. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"289708\" data-originallang=\"en\">Why will the minister not implement the simple and logical solution, a catastrophic drug program? It is affordable, it is efficient and it strengthens our health system.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"289707\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, 17 p. 100 de l'argent d\u00e9pens\u00e9 au Canada dans le domaine des soins de sant\u00e9 est consacr\u00e9 aux m\u00e9dicaments, tandis que seulement 13 p. 100 est consacr\u00e9 aux m\u00e9decins. Les notions les plus \u00e9l\u00e9mentaires d'\u00e9conomique nous disent qu'en achetant les m\u00e9dicaments en vrac, on ferait \u00e9conomiser aux Canadiens de l'argent gagn\u00e9 \u00e0 la sueur de leur front. En toute logique, nous savons que, si nous limitions raisonnablement la dur\u00e9e des brevets, les m\u00e9dicaments co\u00fbteraient moins cher. Aucun malade en attente d'un traitement contre le cancer ne devrait \u00eatre contraint de vivre dans la pauvret\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"289708\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pourquoi le ministre n'applique-t-il pas la solution simple et logique que serait l'\u00e9tablissement d'un programme pour les m\u00e9dicaments on\u00e9reux?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/11/21/penny-priddy-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/450/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/545/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1784841",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Health",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/11/21/",
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}
}