Universal health care is an idea whose time has come

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macare, Cohn, May 2 Martin Regg Cohn’s defence of pharmacare coverage, paid for by progressive taxation, is dead on.

But true universal health care will not be realized until dental care, home care, mental-health care and physiotherapy are also included — a 20th-century idea whose time has long since come. Paul Axelrod, Toronto