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1. Ontario plays chicken with generic drug prices

   Appeared in the National Post Once again the Ontario government is meddling with generic drug prices in a vain attempt to save a few bucks. Having dug itself into an enormous fiscal hole, the province just announced it will further lower the prices it ...

2. Average Personal Affordability of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States 2011

   The findings of this study suggest that, on average, greater government intervention in Canada?s drug markets has not provided more affordable access to prescription drugs relative to a less interventionist policy in the United States. Much of Canadian ...

3. How to make prescription medicines less available: A national pharmacare plan

   Appeared in the National Post There has been much discussion in the past 10 years about whether Canada needs a national Pharmacare plan. While the idea might appeal to some, the plan is driven by ideology as opposed to common sense. Undoubtedly, it is ...

4. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2010

   Since 2005, this study has regulary compared Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. This year?s study ...

5. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2008

   This study regularly (since 2005) compares Canadian and American retail prices for an identical group of the 100 most commonly prescribed brand-name (mostly patented) drugs and the 100 most commonly prescribed generic drugs in Canada. In 2007, this sample ...

6. Canada's Drug Price Paradox, 2007

   Canadians pay much more than Americans for generic drugs because government policies in Canada distort the market for prescription medicines. In currency-equivalent terms, Canadian retail prices for generic prescription drugs in 2006 were on average 115% ...