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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. Nova Scotia should allow competition to determine generic drug prices- commentary

   Appeared in the Oxford Journal Nova Scotia’s minister of health Maureen McDonald has announced her government’s intentions of introducing legislation this spring aimed at getting ‘fairer’ drug prices. It appears that minister McDonald will likely be ...

3. 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 ...

4. Cost Burden of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States, 2008 Edition

   There is a common misconception that American prices for prescription medications are excessive because they are often higher than prices in Canada. This leads some people to suggest that the overall cost burden of prescription drug spending in the United ...

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% ...