Trudeau pledges $6 billion to kickstart talks on health care, national pharmacare with provinces

23 September 2019 - A re-elected Liberal government would introduce a national pharmacare program, Justin Trudeau promised Monday — though ...

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Canadian Health Policy Institute reports national pharmacare is unnecessary, bad for privately insured Canadians and costly for taxpayers: evidence counters Hoskins report

24 September 2019 - Constructive public discussion about a national pharmacare program in Canada is hindered by a lack of balance ...

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Canada's Trudeau promises national prescription drug plan if re-elected

23 September 2019 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that the Liberal Party would work with the ...

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Institutional investors urging Congress to vote down CUSMA, citing effect on drug prices

23 September 2019 - A group of institutional investors representing more than US$500 billion is calling on the U.S. Congress ...

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National pharmacare cheaper than healing people who can't afford their drugs

17 September 2019 - A national pharmacare program could potentially reduce prescription drug spending by aggregating the buying power of all ...

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Health technology agency insights: informing modification of a qualitative benefit risk framework for health technology reassessment of prescription medications

16 September 2019 - This study's intent was to determine if a qualitative benefit risk framework could be used or modified ...

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Canada decides: Leading parties plan to tackle ways to make medicine affordable

16 September 2019 - Canadian voters will be hearing a lot about a new national prescription drug program to fill a ...

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Public plans covered only 26% of the 491 new drugs approved by Health Canada from 2009 to 2018; national pharmacare is an empty promise for 23.2 million Canadians now covered by private plans

11 September 2019 - Two new studies confirm the abysmal state of access to innovative medicines in Canada’s publicly funded drug ...

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New rules will keep the best medications from desperate Canadians

12 September 2019 - One reaction to recent amendments to the rules of the federal Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, ...

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Erosion of physician and patient treatment choice continues - Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines raises concerns for patients as British Columbia expands biologics forced switching policy

10 September 2019 - On 5 September, the Government of British Columbia announced that it would be forcibly switching 1,700 patients ...

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Canada releases final amendments to patented medicines pricing regulations

9 September 2019 - On 9 August 2019 Health Canada announced the final amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations. ...

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Trudeau’s drug price overhaul is set to cost drug makers billions

6 September 2019 - Canada revamps drug-pricing regime for first time since 1987. ...

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NDP promises to restore special drugs program

4 September 2019 - Province paid deductible for chronic patients from 1968 to 2018. ...

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Manitoba Liberals promise to opt into national Pharmacare program

4 September 2019 - Liberals say Pallister won't sign onto such a program but Tories say they've been trying to get ...

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'Outrageously expensive': new drug approval will cost Ontario family 100K per year

30 August 2019 - Drug cost jumped from $5,000 to more than $100,000 per year. ...

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