Could Ontario take just three more prudent steps to expand its laudable pharmacare program to everyone without increasing its costs? 

The province could contract with or preferably purchase a drug manufacturer to produce basic drugs for Canadians to generate profits to fund pharmacare. 

The province could cut pharmacy fees currently charged on non-prescription items, ie turning $2 tums into $12 tums, to  save tens of millions of dollars. 

The province could also refuse to pay monthly pharmacy fees on annual prescriptions that do not change year over year. In fact, pharmacy rip-offs and absurd pharmacy fee overcharging, usually coupled with turning annual prescriptions into separate monthly ones to multiple fees by 12, is long overdue for reform. It's time to end the profiteering done only for profit and to gouge government.