ContextPrescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease.
Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to them …

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Background Pharmaceutical costs are the fastest-growing health-care expense in most
developed countries. Higher drug costs have been shown to negatively impact patient …

Background Growing expenditures on prescription drugs represent a major challenge to
many health systems. Cap and co‐payment (direct cost‐share) policies are intended as an …

As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income
countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients …

Background Growing expenditures on prescription medicines represent a major challenge
to many health systems. Cap and co‐payment policies are intended as an incentive to deter …

Background Though chronic pain is widespread, affecting about one-fifth of the world's
population, its impacts are disproportionately felt across the population according to …

Purpose The evidence is emerging that prescription medications are the topmost drivers of
increasing health care costs in Canada. The financial burden of medications may lead …

This study examines the impact that private financing of prescription drugs in Canada has on
equity in the utilization of publicly financed physician services. The complementary nature of …

Background: Reimbursement for outpatient prescription drugs is not mandated by the
Canada Health Act or any other federal legislation. Provincial governments independently …