Allow me to provide some context that’s glaringly missing from the article. There was a major under-adoption issue that was a factor in the scrapping of this program. This identifies a new target for intervention: incentivizing primary care offices to get off fax so that we can successfully roll out a more efficient electronic systems like this.

Doctors are still faxing prescriptions in 2026. Ottawa’s $250-million program to change that was just shut down

Despite the number of providers on board, use of the service has remained low. Less than 5 per cent of prescriptions are sent electronically in Canada each year, according to reports from Canada Health Infoway and Telus Health.

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With the MAGA cap too…
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I fucking hate genAI. Post should be deleted

The public system gets to pay for treating these patients seemingly made sick by a for-profit business and the investigation of said business. I’m so glad we let for-profit companies back into blood collection after kicking them out after the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s in which 1000s were exposed to HIV or Hep C /s

if she believes this is the best way to represent her electorate and that’s her motivation, fine

I’d have liked to see a town hall meeting or other community consultation at the very least. Absent that, I can’t help but think it’s motivated by self-interest

Legal, yes. Ethical?

That is shocking and maybe setting a very worrisome precedent of Carney clearly implementing a “big business can regulate itself” (wink, wink) style of ‘government’ (or, more cynically, a government that represents clearly represents big business not people)

Ty!

I hope whoever wins can breathe some fresh life into a party, political system, and country that truly needs it right now

Wait till we see 2025 and 2026 data on overall and Ozempic sales. 2024 was before major entry into Canada, iirc.

Perhaps a larger issue, in my limited and anecdotal analysis, is the rise of app-based medical services that are prescription mills for “fashionable drugs” like erection pills, stimulants (meant for people with ADHD), GLP1 inhibitors like ozempic (meant for people with diabetes or obesity).

Patients pay to access drugs, almost self-prescribing, through these services given their often limited patient assessment and care.

I have a colleague, late 20s, I’d say she has basically a perfect body, one many women would want. She works out a lot. She paid for one of these services. Not even a video call. Said she was 200 lbs on the application form. Is probably about 105 lbs. I suspect she has body image issues (edit: she’s taking ozempic specifically to try to lose weight). She’s being gouged $200/mo for ozempic alone, before the fees to be ‘medically supervised’ on it by the app.

You basically starve yourself on ozempic at doses intended for weight loss - which isn’t a problem if you have obesity. Self-starvation at healthy or under weight and being interested in starting a family down the road (especially as an AFAB) is a different matter. And it is one that probably isn’t sufficiently addressed in a service in which a person can lie about their weight by 2x

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but you had to have registered for this in advance to vote.

If Avi wins, I’ll volunteer for the NDP

If I voted for such a floor-crosser, I’d feel so betrayed

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The person you’re discussing this with is clearly more knowledgeable than you are. So you resort to “they must be a bot.” Good grief. Blocked

Why are you being so litigious about this? I’m blocking you because you’re detracting from my Lemmy experience. I have a honours degree in psychology, I work in hospital research, I have 20 publications. I’ve tried to avoid saying “I can tell you two both don’t know much about [social] sciences” but refrained from that out of civility

This may be a helpful term to know to facilitate your mental and emotional processing of this BS experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_porn

But hey what if we’re just faking it for free handouts?

That’s widely touted reason, but I don’t buy it; I think the real reason is more sinister. There’s a term along the lines of “obfuscation by administration” (maybe someone here can recall it), which basically means that the more cumbersome you make a process, the fewer people there will be who persevere through it to reap the benefits at the end. (Of course, those that do will tend to be the least needy.)

There’s nothing more Reddit like than “I think what you mean / you should be saying” and a “this is such a Reddit moment” to boot lol

We can agree to disagree. I was respectful. I didn’t say the person or their viewpoint was wrong - I just pointed out what I think is inaccurate in their comment. And, most importantly, I fully explained myself so that others could examine my argument and disagree with it. In retrospect, I should have used “cloaked” instead of “disguised” for connotative language’s sake. I’m trying to help Lemmy remain a place for respectful and accurate discourse, not bots, disinformation, and dunking on people (edit: censorship too)

Studies have shown that racism is often caused by a lack of intelligence

Social scientists don’t speak in such certain terms. I think what you may mean is, anecdotally, the people you’ve seen be racist seem unintelligent. Me too. But the answer to get rid of racism isn’t to get rid of unintelligent people. It’s more complicated than that. Hearing anecdotal experience disguised as scientific evidence (“studies have shown X is caused by Y”) feels like reddit not Lemmy

I’m really sorry you’re going through this, having to jump through hoops and waiting a very long time to find out if you’ve been approved for ODSP. The way this country treats people with disabilities is shameful

Good question. Not sure, I wasn’t able to find it from a quick search. I don’t know NIN, so I wouldn’t know. Point still stands

Edit: There are many people on social media, like Mastodon, expressing doubt that this is a Reznor quote

It looks very chatty!