Canada’s healthcare system is excellent for people with common ailments like diabetes or high blood pressure, but it’s “basically failing the nearly three million Canadians with rare diseases,” says Durhane Wong-Rieger, president and CEO of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders (CORD).
Read what Wong-Rieger says we need to do to turn things around here: “Canada Trails US in Patient Access to Rare Disease Therapies, CORD President Says”
Do you agree with Durhane Wong-Rieger? How much care should publicly funded healthcare systems provide to patients with rare diseases?