Canadians embrace universal public health care as a core national value. We are proud to
say that we live in a country that ensures access to health care for all, regardless of means …

UWOMJ 85: 1| Spring 2016 Page 24 has the potential to be cost-saving. 4, 7 However, these
estimates are derived from computer simulations which simplify real interactions in the …

Drug coverage in Canada is a patchwork; an inequitable inefficient and unsustainable
patchwork with no coherence or purpose. Some people think that we can solve the problem …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that all countries should have
universal health coverage, ensuring equitable access to treatment and necessary medicines …

Canada is the only OECD country with universal health insurance that does not include
coverage of prescription pharmaceuticals. Some provinces have taken steps to provide drug …

Last week, to great fanfare and much media attention across the country, the Canadian
Medical Association Journal announced the publication of a new study trumpeting the great …

The movement for a national pharmacare plan in Canada is growing, but at the same time
the multinational pharmaceutical companies and their supporters are critical of such a move …

One of the glaring gaps in Canada's universal healthcare system is the low level of public
financing of prescription drugs-42.7% of total spending in 2018. At the federal level there is …

Canada is one of few Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries
that does not have a national program for public coverage of medicines (others being Israel …

Canada is the only Universal Health Insurance country in the OECD without universal
insurance for outpatient prescription drugs, a situation generally perceived as unfair and …