The cost containment of prescription medication in Canada is due to Federal
price regulation. Yet we (the drug companies in Canada, not me personally)
continue to do R&D and come up with new meds.
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On 11/13/2003 at 8:54 PM Garth Wood wrote:
>At 07:21 PM 11/13/2003 -0800, Jim Brokaw wrote:
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>>I think a lot of it is that Canada has a 'federalized' health care system,
>>so the government is actively interested in the containing and reducing
>>prices of the drugs consumed...
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>Actually, in Canada, health care is a provincial responsibility. The Feds
>got involved just a few decades ago with so-called "dove-tail" legislation
>(the Canada Health Act and various supporting Orders in Council) which
>essentially bribes provinces with money to adopt a uniform set of
>standards across Canada. And the drug insurance I mentioned in a previous
>post is private insurance -- the provinces don't generally insure citizens
>for the cost of prescription drugs, except in special cases (physically or
>mentally handicapped, exceptional needs for rare and expensive drugs [on a
>case-by-case basis, which always makes for great stories of indignation on
>the part of the media], etc.).
>
>
>Garth
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