At the recent Council of the Federation meeting, Canadian provinces (except Quebec) announced that they will begin bulk-buying different generic drugs to reduce health care costs. They also flagged the need to both expand and accelerate group pricing on brand name pharmaceuticals.
This is a long time...
(1) Comments | Posted June 20, 2011 | 7:50 AM
The current system for buying prescription drugs in Canada is a hybrid system of multiple public and private drug plans that is totally dysfunctional, for many reasons.
The diversity of drug plans means that Canadians are covered for their drugs according to which province they live, or work, but not...
(1) Comments | Posted August 22, 2012 | 12:28 PM