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1. 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, ...

2. Drug Disincentives

   Appeared in the National Post In January, GlaxoSmithKline, a global pharmaceutical manufacturer, announced that it would stop delivering its prescription drugs to wholesalers that supply Canadian mail order pharmacies that sell to American patients. These ...

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. 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 ...

6. The Answer to America`s Healthcare Problems Does Not Lie in Importing Canada`s Failures

   Appeared in The Houston Chronicle The Congress and state governments in the U.S. currently are considering proposals to import prescription drugs from Canada and to use government`s so-called bargaining clout to wring discounts from drug makers. ...

7. The Romanow Commission: Tragedy of a One Man Band

     That report’s introduction reveals the futility of the task: “… a one-person, time-limited Commission cannot address every conceivable issue affecting the future of health care in Canada.” Take one man, add a budget of over $15 million, solicit the ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...