{"id":505193,"date":"2026-02-28T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505193\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:08:15","slug":"premier-awaiting-response-from-ottawa-on-pharmacare-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505193\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Awaiting Response from Ottawa on Pharmacare Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/premier-5.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Premier Awaiting Response from Ottawa on Pharmacare Inclusion\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador is still <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/02\/01\/290787\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">waiting on a response<\/a> from\u00a0Ottawa on not yet being included in a national pharmacare program.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/releases\/files\/2026\/02\/Premier-Wakeham-Letter-to-PM-Carney.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote the Prime Minister<\/a> earlier this month raising concerns about\u00a0Ottawa\u2019s \u201cfractured approach\u201d to pharmacare.<\/p>\n<p>The premier says he has yet to receive an update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still waiting,\u201d says Wakeham. \u201cWe\u2019ve written the Prime Minister on that, and as I said, what we have now is a two-tiered system. We\u2019ve got a number of provinces who have signed on, were able to sign on, and then the program was stopped by the federal government. So there are a number of provinces who have been left out. I don\u2019t understand why we didn\u2019t sign on when we had the opportunity, but it\u2019s something I will continue to pursue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News) Newfoundland and Labrador is still waiting on a response from\u00a0Ottawa on not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-505193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}