Exposing 12 myths that support drug price controls and harm our health system
OTTAWA, ON (June 28, 2022): Is the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) causing more harm than good? A recent ...
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Ottawa should reset its relationship with drug developers to improve patient health: Rawson and Adams for Inside Policy
By Nigel Rawson and John Adams, May 2, 2022 On April 14, 2022, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced the federal ...
Quebec gets the constitution right (on drug price control): Richard Owens in the Financial Post
While unconstitutional institutions and policies may be accommodated by the provinces to some degree, pushing them too far will end ...
COVID-19 research in Canada reveals Ottawa’s unwillingness to collaborate: Nigel Rawson and John Adams for Inside Policy
Canadian governments, at all levels, must take responsibility for their inept procurement and distribution processes in their health systems, write ...
Econ 101: Drug price controls shrink supply: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Increased drug revenues enable increased research and development expenditures, which in turn result in better health and longer lives, writes ...
Video and photos – Is Donald Trump coming for Canadians’ medicines?
An old idea for a short-cut to cheaper medicines in the US seems to be gaining momentum in 2019. President ...
Trump says Canadians are unfairly freeloading off American drugs. He’s right: Richard Owens and Stephen Ezell in the Financial Post
Photo credit: Vegan Liftz It’s time for Canada to grow up and to purge the defeatist parasitism that sometimes characterizes ...
The Trudeau government is building a wall to keep out life-saving drugs: Owens in the Financial Post
If you don’t know what the PMPRB is, you should — it holds the power of life and death over ...
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