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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. Premiers Want Money...Not Accountability

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Six weeks ago, on this page, I lamented Roy Romanow’s failure to propose creative reforms to our country’s health care system. He simply demanded $15 billion more federal transfers to provinces, while expanding ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...