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Sudbury Green Party Response to E-mail Campaign
The Green Party has a more holistic approach to diabetes. We believe that prevention is the key, by giving Canadians more education on a proper healthy lifestyle and making more healthier choices more attainable to all Canadians we feel that diabetes among other illnesses will be reduce significantly. Currently our society is in a situation where healthier choices in food are not always practical for many Canadian families do to cost, lack of time to prepare healthy meals and lack of education. The Green Party is committed to change this by making healthier choices much more financially available by supporting eating local and local organic farming. Making healthier food cheaper and "junk food" more expensive. Making sure families have a livable income so they don't have to work 40 hours or more and not have time to come home and prepare a healthy meal, spend time with family and friends and participate in much needed physical activity.
We also understand that in certain circumstances medication is needed along with other medical supplies and the Green Party is prepared to:
Initiate a public inquiry into the rising costs and over-prescription of drugs.
Immediately embark on a commission to study and conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the feasibility of establishing, in cooperation with the provinces, a new crown corporation to bulk purchase and dispense generic drugs to pharmacies and the feasibility of establishing a national PharmaCare Program that ensures that effective pharmaceuticals are available to all Canadians who need them.
Gordon Harris
Green Party Candidate for Sudbury
greenpartysudbury@gmail.com
149 Lorne St, Sudbury ON, P3C 4P4
(705) 222-6974
Make Diabetes an Election Priority
If you have diabetes, it should not matter where you live in Canada – but it does. Canadians living with diabetes deserve the medications, devices and supplies needed to manage their disease and avoid serious complications.
A federal commitment that ensures Canadians pay less than 3% of their adjusted family income on medications, devices and supplies would benefit all Canadians. Recent University of British Columbia research showed that for every $1 government invests in helping patients and doctors manage type 2 diabetes effectively, government saves $4 across the healthcare system by not having to treat diabetes complications.
Click here to e-mail all Candidates in your community and learn more about the National Catastrophic Drug Plan
Advocacy Online Campaign Launched Today
On Tuesday July 22nd, Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, the Hon. David Caplan, announced the expansion of the Province’s free insulin pump and supplies program to all adults living with type 1 diabetes whose doctor prescribes one.
Support the campaign to thank your MPP for insulin pumps and supplies!
Click on the LINK, fill out the form and press SUBMIT. On the next page you will find a letter to e-mail to your MPP.
http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=27&ea.campaign.id=1149.
It only takes a minute and it is easy to do.
Thank you for being a Diabetes Advocate!
Ontario Launches Diabetes Strategy
$741 Million Plan Will Make Patients Partners In Care. Ontario is investing $741 million in new funding on a comprehensive diabetes strategy over four years to prevent, manage and treat diabetes.
The strategy includes an online registry that will enable better self-care by giving patients access to information and educational tools that empower them to manage their disease. The registry will also give health care providers the ability to easily check patient records, access diagnostic information and send patient alerts. The registry is set to come online starting Spring 2009.
Other key elements of the strategy include :
- - Improving access to insulin pumps and supplies for more than 1300 adults with type 1 diabetes by funding these services for people over the age of 18.
- - Expanding chronic kidney disease services, including greater access to dialysis services.
- - Implementing a strategy to expand access to bariatric surgery.
- - Educational campaigns to prevent diabetes by raising awareness of diabetes risk factors in high risk populations, such as the Aboriginal and South Asian communities.
- - Increasing access to team-based care closer to home by mapping the prevalence of diabetes across the province and the location of current diabetes programs in order to align services and address service gaps.