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1. A Lethal Guardian: The Canadian Government's Ban on Prescription Drugs

   When any new drug is invented and ready for distribution in Canada, the Canadian government responds by enforcing an automatic ban on its use. This ban is removed for patients who need the drug immediately only under extraordinary circumstances. The ...

2. Canadian Pharmacare: Performance, Incentives, and Insurance

   This paper discusses differences between provincial drug plans with respect to breadth of coverage and cost sharing between patients and taxpayers, and introduces two new measurements to describe how provincial Pharmacare plans perform as insurers and how ...

3. Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States, Part 4: Canadian Prescriptions for American Patients Are Not the Solution

   This paper looks at the cross-border mail-order pharmaceutical trade and determines that it suffers serious flaws. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/CanadianPrescriptionsforAmericans.pdf ...

4. Briefing to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health on Prescription Drugs

   The Canadian government needs to abolish pharmaceutical price controls, increase competition amongst drug makers by allowing advertising, stop the gray market in prescription drugs from Canada to the United States, and take other steps to improve ...

5. 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 ...

6. Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States, Part 3: Retail Price Distribution

   This study looks at retail prices of three patented prescription drugs in three American and three Canadian areas along the border between Canada and the United States. Although finding that Canadian prices are significantly lower than American prices, it ...

7. Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States, Part 1: A Comparative Survey

   This study compares the prices of prescription drugs in Canada and the United States. The measure used is the replacement cost, at Canadian prices, of drugs consumed by the average American pharmacy or consumer. The sample was selected from the drugs ...

8. Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States, Part 2:Why the Difference?

   This study compares the prices of prescription drugs in Canada and the United States. The measure used is the replacement cost, at Canadian prices, of drugs consumed by the average American pharmacy or consumer. The sample was selected from the drugs ...