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1. Average Personal Affordability of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States 2011

   The findings of this study suggest that, on average, greater government intervention in Canada?s drug markets has not provided more affordable access to prescription drugs relative to a less interventionist policy in the United States. Much of Canadian ...

2. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2010

   Since 2005, this study has regulary compared Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. This year?s study ...

3. Average Personal Affordability of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States, 2010 edition

   The findings of this study suggest that, on average, greater government intervention in Canada?s drug markets has not provided more affordable access to prescription drugs relative to less interventionist policy in the United States. This study notes that ...

4. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2008

   This study regularly (since 2005) compares Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. In 2007, this sample ...

5. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2007

   Canadians pay much more than Americans for generic drugs because government policies in Canada distort the market for prescription medicines. In currency-equivalent terms, Canadian retail prices for generic prescription drugs in 2006 were on average 115% ...

6. The Misguided War Against Medicines

   Appeared in the Windsor Star, Peace River Block News, Woodstock Sentinel-Review, and the Owen Sound Sun-Times Since 2000, at least five provincial studies, plus a Senate report have concluded that the annual growth in government health spending is not ...

7. Canada's Drug Price Paradox: The Unexpected Losses Caused by Government Interference in Pharmaceutical Markets

   This study shows that Canadians pay much more than they should for generic drugs and that this is because of the very government policies that were supposed to make prescription medicines cheaper in the first place. This study also finds that price ...