B.C.’s Fair PharmaCare fares poorly compared with other system: Vancouver Sun Op-Ed
Published in the Vancouver Sun on June 12, 2013
By Steve Morgan
It has been a decade since British Columbia implemented Fair PharmaCare.
The program ended what was effectively public provision of prescription medicines for seniors and created an income-based government safety net for all people, regardless of age.
So how has the program performed?
In a paper published this week by the C.D. Howe Institute, my colleagues and I review the performance of Canadian PharmaCare models against systems in comparable countries around the world. We find that B.C. fares poorly within Canada, and that Canada fares poorly among comparable countries abroad.
Under Fair PharmaCare, public subsidies kick in…
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