The Act will allow the government to establish the New Brunswick Drug Plan. Flemming calls it a momentous day in our province's history, rivaled only by the introduction of Medicare.
Liberal health critic Donald Arsenault responded with the rejoinder that while the opposition agrees in principle with the act, the Alward government should be apologizing to the taxpayers whose hopes they raised when they promised to have the plan completed in the first year of their mandate, considering it is now over three years later.
The Health Minister has said he refuses to apologize for taking the necessary time to carefully construct the plan.
New Brunswickers with a valid health care will be able to voluntarily enroll in the plan by May 1, 2014. For the full details of the plan click here
