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1. Drug Coverage for low-income families: The Canadian Reality and Lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands

   Modern medicines are essential for improving health outcomes, alleviating pain and suffering, increasing longevity, and reducing expenditures on other medical services. While there is merit to pursuing a policy that expands access to those in need, it ...

2. Case for Mutual Recognition of Drug Approvals

   This study aims to measure the difference in access to new medicines that results from duplication of effort in Canada. By compiling a list of new drugs approved in Canada between 2005-2011/12 (Health Canada moved from calendar-year to fiscal-year ...

3. Bulk prescription drug purchasing: It's not all savings

   Appeared in the National Post As part of their struggle with budget realities and the growing cost of health care, Canada's provinces continue to work on bulk purchasing agreements for pharmaceuticals as a way to save money. Unfortunately, the recent ...