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Budget 2018 lays groundwork for possible national pharmacare program
In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical. ...
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How Mean is a Pharmacare Means Test?
Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Faced with a crowd of 2,000 seniors protesting in front of the provincial legislature last Tuesday, the provincial government reneged on its commitment to a means test for Pharmacare benefits. This is a bad sign. Seniors ...
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The Fantasy of Reference Pricing and the Promise of Choice in BC's Pharmacare
For defenders of government-run health care, the existence of provincial drug benefit plans is actually a blot on Canadian health care, in that they are not part of single-payer, first-dollar coverage, medicare (National Forum on Health, 1997:22). When ...