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Canada 's parliament has passed a bill that will cover the full cost of contraception and diabetes drugs for Canadians .
The bill is the initial phase of a plan that would expand to become a publicly funded national pharmacare programme.
The government estimates one in five Canadians struggle to pay for prescription drugs.
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