The building blocks of drug coverage reforms in Canada

In the fragmented system, we don't even have access to data on prescribed drugs to assess if physicians’ prescribing habits are in line with best medical evidence, or if they are simply the results of drug companies’ promotional campaigns.
The pharmacare advisory council's recommendations can serve building blocks for a comprehensive drug policy by ensuring access to appropriate prescription drugs while providing value for money.
Canada’s current system of prescription drug coverage is a patchwork of policies, an inequitable, inefficient, and unsustainable patchwork without coherence or purpose. Some think more patches can solve the problem, but ultimately, the core problem is that it is a patchwork. Canadians pay among t...

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