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1. 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 ...

2. Prescription Benefit Tied to Medicare may Deny Payments for Pricier, More Effective Drugs

   Appeared in the Watertown (NY) Daily Times and the Norwalk (CT) Hour Worried about rising expenditures for prescription drugs, many states are employing preferred lists to encourage doctors to prescribe older, lower-priced drugs and forego the latest, ...

3. The Fairness of Fair Pharmacare

     The newspapers and airwaves are filled with people fuming about Fair Pharmacare. There are three major complaints (other than the challenge of getting through to Pharmacare to register). Firstly, that Fair Pharmacare forces patients to pay more of their ...

4. 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 ...

5. National Pharmacare: Prescription for Restriction

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen The existence of independent provincial Pharmacare programs and private insurance for prescription drugs is considered by some to be a blot on Canadian medicare. They want these options abolished in favour of National ...

6. Reforming Pharmacare

     In his opinion about reforming Pharmacare on October 3, Victor Vrsnik, of the usually sensible Canadian Taxpayers Federation, resurrected the fantasy of a national pharmacare plan. He supposes that the purchasing power of the federal government would ...