Privatizing drug insurance the best way to improve access to expensive new drugs

Governments should end existing public programs and enact policies that would encourage the emergence of a competitive private-sector insurance market in which universal access to catastrophic drug insurance could be facilitated through means-tested subsi

VANCOUVER—The Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada (CACC) recently published a report which found that due to a lack of universal drug insurance coverage in Canada, many Canadians are unable to access the newest cancer drugs that are available in other countries. The CACC subsequently recomm...

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