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1. Canadian patients suffer lack of access to cancer drugs

   New research by scholars at the University of Pittsburgh shows how bad access to new cancer medicines is in Canada, especially compared to the United States: Of 45 anticancer drug indications approved in the United States between January ...

2. Cures Act ensures U.S. will continue to outperform Canada in approving new medicines

   Last month, President Obama signed the last bill of his presidency, the 21st Century Cures Act. The most important part of this bill is reform of the regulatory processes at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will speed up ...

3. Trump pharmaceutical policy may help raise Canadian drug prices to American levels

   A statement from Donald Trump’s health reform proposal poses a potential problem for Canadians: Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage ...

4. Bill Clinton is right about ‘crazy’ Obamacare

   I recently recommended the United States follow Canada’s lead and allow EpiPens to be made available over-the-counter, which would lower both price and cost. There’s another problem Americans have, thanks to the way health care is ...

5. Stronger patent laws can save lives in the developing world

   Why don’t Canadians, Americans or Europeans fear rabies, leprosy or malaria? These diseases exist and a few cases are reported every year. But some people are so confident they’ll never get rabies, for example, that they feed raccoons in ...

6. U.S. should follow Canada’s lead on EpiPens

   If you follow the health reform debate in the United States, you know that every once in a while a pharmaceutical executive decides to poke the political dragon by jacking up the price of a prescription drug. This time around, it is ...

7. U.S. trending toward European and Asian-style health care—not Canadian-style

   Steve Globerman’s recent study of health systems in Canada and nine European and Asian countries with “universal” health care demonstrates Canadian patients are unique in having government control spending from the first dollar—that is, ...

8. The primary obstacles of single-payer health care in American states

   Canadian Medicare did not start out as a national institution. It started in one province, Saskatchewan, and spread to others over the years. Some American politicians believe they can replicate this in the United States. Prof. Steve ...

9. Canada’s pharma sector can benefit from America’s terrible corporate tax code

   Unfortunately, the Canadian pharmaceutical company most discussed these days is Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., headquartered in the Montreal suburbs. Criticized for eye-popping price hikes for it's medicines, and ...

10. The reality of U.S. and Canadian health-care spending

    Health-care spending accounts for a high share of Gross Domestic Product in the United States, relative to Canada. In 2013, U.S. health-care spending accounted for 17.1 per cent of GDP, versus just 10.7 per cent in Canada, according to ...