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Leave the patchwork for the quilts: The case for national pharmacare
FEBRUARY 2, 2015 The Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) was founded in 1979 as a public advocacy organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of medicare.…
Would pharmacare spell trouble for drug companies?
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the issue of prescription drug access back to the fore as questions of affordable access became international news in…
How pharmacare can offset higher drug prices post-CETA
Canada recently dodged a bullet when the House Democrats negotiated the removal of extended periods of monopoly protection for biologic drugs, such as treatments for…
Pharmacare costing: How to make universal, single-payer pharmacare work for households and employers
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USMCA and Drug Costs – Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma
The USMCA, or CUSMA as it’s known here in Canada, is slowly working its way through the U.S. “fast-track” ratification process. Once the U.S. International…
Budget 2019: A small step on the long road to national pharmacare
For many observers, incremental change has come to define the federal government’s approach to policy change. With the release of this week’s federal budget, it…
Why high U.S. drug prices matter to Canada
Photo by ccPixs.com, Flickr Creative Commons. In the mid-1970s the average monthly cost of a cancer drug in the United States was about $100. By 1995 that…
The Ford government’s superficial arguments against pharmacare
Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government is rejigging OHIP+, a modest but promising pharmacare policy introduced by the previous Liberal government, allegedly to make more efficient…
The TPP and the cost of drugs
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Prescription for change: the case for a national drug plan
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