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{
"time": "2024-05-30 19:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8433881\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I will actually ask the member a question about the legislation. In Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12924814\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-64/\" title=\"An Act respecting pharmacare\">C-64</a>, clause 6, \u201cPayments\u201d, it says very specifically that it is supposed \u201cto provide universal, single-payer, first-dollar coverage\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8433882\" data-originallang=\"en\"> First-dollar coverage means that if a private insurance company today covers diabetic medication, it will not be able to do so if this legislation comes into force. In fact, it would be a crime. It would be illegal to do that, which means that there is a great potential for Canadians who are currently insured for their diabetes medication with a private insurer to lose it. They are actually the majority in this country. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8433883\" data-originallang=\"en\">How many Canadians would lose the coverage that they currently have because of this first-dollar coverage found in clause 6 of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12924814\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-64/\" title=\"An Act respecting pharmacare\">C-64</a>?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8433881\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je vais en fait poser une question au d\u00e9put\u00e9 au sujet de la mesure l\u00e9gislative. \u00c0 l'article 6 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12924814\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-64/\" title=\"An Act respecting pharmacare\">C\u201164</a>, sous la rubrique \u00ab Paiements \u00bb, il est dit tr\u00e8s clairement que le r\u00e9gime est cens\u00e9 \u00ab offrir une couverture universelle au premier dollar \u00e0 payeur unique \u00bb.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8433882\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une couverture au premier dollar signifie que, si une compagnie d'assurance priv\u00e9e couvre aujourd'hui les m\u00e9dicaments contre le diab\u00e8te, elle ne pourra plus le faire si la mesure l\u00e9gislative entre en vigueur. En fait, ce serait un crime. Ce serait ill\u00e9gal, ce qui signifie qu'il y a un grand risque que les Canadiens qui sont actuellement assur\u00e9s pour leurs m\u00e9dicaments contre le diab\u00e8te aupr\u00e8s d'un assureur priv\u00e9 perdent cette assurance. En fait, c'est le cas de la majorit\u00e9 des diab\u00e9tiques dans ce pays.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8433883\" data-originallang=\"en\">Combien de Canadiens perdraient la couverture dont ils b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient actuellement \u00e0 cause de cette couverture au premier dollar pr\u00e9vue \u00e0 l'article 6 du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"12924814\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-64/\" title=\"An Act respecting pharmacare\">C\u201164</a>?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2024/5/30/tom-kmiec-4/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/tom-kmiec/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4224/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12780141",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Pharmacare Act",
"fr": "Loi sur l'assurance m\u00e9dicaments"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Motions in Amendment",
"fr": "Motions d'amendement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2024/5/30/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2024%2F5%2F30%2F"
}
}