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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Sep 2019
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2019
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2019
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2019
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2019
Bring in pharmacare now, health experts ask federal leaders
15 August 2019 - Signatories include professors of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, economics, political science and law. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2019
Could Quebec’s public drug plan work for national pharmacare?
30 July 2019 - Quebec’s universal pharmacare program offers better drug coverage and quicker approval for new drugs coming to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2019
Quebec’s public-private pharmacare model provides more generous—and timely—access to new drugs
25 July 2019 - Quebec’s universal pharmacare system, which relies on both a public plan and private insurance providers, covers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2019
Should national pharmacare apply a value based insurance design?
22 July 2019 - The final report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, published in June 2019, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Canada’s labour leaders encourage premiers to embrace universal pharmacare
10 July 2019 - The presidents of federations of labour from across the country are in Saskatoon during the Council ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jun 2019
Pharmacare in Canada remains an idealistic pitch, without a realistic plan
26 June 2019 - We still haven't figured out how to make health care truly universal. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
Advisory Council supports biosimilars in call for universal public drug coverage in Canada
17 June 2019 - A Canadian advisory council is recommending the use of biosimilars in a final report that lays ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2019
Canada already has a pharmacare system — and it's working
17 June 2019 - Why blow up a system that is mostly working and take on billions in new spending when ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jun 2019
Canada should have universal, single-payer public pharmacare, says advisory council
12 June 2019 - Canada should have a national pharmacare program that is universal, single payer and public, says an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jun 2019
Patients, physicians raise concerns with BC biosimilar non-medical switching policy
6 June 2019 - On 27 May, the Government of British Columbia announced a policy that will forcibly switch thousands ...