Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2019
Don’t buy pharma’s lies
14 May 2019 - As universal pharmacare gets closer to reality for Canada, drug companies are ramping up their false rhetoric.
They say a universal, public pharmacare plan would result in worse access to medicines, higher costs, and less innovation in Canada. Don’t believe them.
Canada is the only high-income country with a universal, public health care system that does not include universal, public coverage of prescription drugs. Instead, we have an incomplete patchwork of private and public drug insurance plans financed and managed separately from our medicare system. That is insane.
Contrary to pharma’s claims, our private-public drug insurance system performs worse than universal, public pharmacare systems in terms of access, costs, and innovation. Here’s why.
