Pharmacare costs vex provinces, Ottawa moves slowly GlobeBC
Ginette Petitpas Taylor, federal Minister of Health, listens to comments made during a press conference on the national pharmacare program at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute in Toronto on Wednesday, March 6, 2019.Provincial health ministers will be searching the March 19 federal budget for a single line – a dollar figure that would demonstrate the Liberal government’s commitment to a national pharmacare program. But expectations are not high.
And last week, Ottawa released an interim report from the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, which had surprisingly little concrete advice on how to implement a national pharmacare program. Expensive drugs for rare diseases are now the fastest growing cost pressure in British Columbia’s health-care budget. The average annual cost for each patient in B.C. who is eligible for public funding for one of these drugs is more than $600,000. And without reforms, that figure will only grow in the coming years.
Michael Law, the Canada Research Chair in Access to Medicines, said the current system isn’t serving Canadians well, as each province and territory finds itself under pressure to pay for costly new patented drugs. Individually, they don’t have much bargaining clout to battle excessive drug prices.
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