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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 ...
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Fair Pharmacare is a Fair First Step
The provincial government has finally decided to cut back on one small area of health spending, by significantly increasing user fees for Pharmacare. Although many British Columbians are under the misapprehension that the Liberal government cut back ...
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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 ...
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Cross-Border Pill Shopping: Canadians Patients Will Suffer More Than Canadian Doctors
Doctors have a professional monopoly on prescribing drugs, and the professions leaders are right to worry about doctors who abuse this authority by co-signing prescriptions for patients whom they have never examined. Some Americans fill prescriptions ...
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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 ...
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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 ...