Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2018
Doctors in Canada and US call for ‘fundamental reform’ on prescription drug prices
17 May 2018 - A new report written by doctors in Canada and the U.S. is calling for major reforms to lower the price of drugs.
Published in the British Medical Journal, the report is the result of a two year-study by the U.S./Canadian Pharmaceutical Policy Reform Working Group. The group consisted of physicians in both countries concerned about the high prices of drugs and the impact of pharmaceutical companies’ interests on how medications are priced.
Joel Lexchin, one of the co-authors of the report and an emergency medicine doctor at the University Health Network in Toronto, said that one of the major issues they were trying to address was drugs that were priced well over affordable rates.
