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1. Romanow Ignores Facts, Claims No One Told Him

     Roy Romanow, head of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, is either confused or just plain ignorant about the advantages of increased patient choice. After an alarming speech at Harvard University on Wednesday, where he claimed that ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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. ...

4. 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 ...

5. Cross-Border Pill Shopping: Canadians Patients Will Suffer More Than Canadian Doctors

     Doctors have a professional monopoly on prescribing drugs, and the profession’s 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...