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Canada's parliament has passed a bill that that will cover the full cost of contraception and diabetes drugs for Canadians.

The Liberal government said it is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national pharmacare programme.

But two provinces - Alberta and Quebec - have indicated they may opt-out of the programme, accusing Ottawa of interfering in provincial matters.

Opposition Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party is ahead in national polls by a wide margin, does not support the legislation.

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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 days ago

Most of those are quite literally lifestyle related. The others seem to be correlated, but not causal.

The consensus is that lifestyle changes, better than medical treatments, work better and should be the default.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

One of my friends growing up had type 2 diabetes, got diagnosed at 6 years old despite otherwise being a normal, healthy, active, skinny little white girl from a middle class family who's biggest diabetes-related crime in the normal person's eye would be she had a fondness for hot chocolate and drank it as a treat a time or 2 a week, usually at church

No treatment for her, then, since clearly her lifestyle caused it? Or do you maybe not understand it as well as you think you do?

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