Why are these premiers smiling? Pharmacare is a Trojan horse
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Imagine the reaction if Prime Minister Paul Martin stood up and said the federal government no longer wants to pay for hospital costs, or for doctors&#39; services.
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CEOs in the life-sciences business are supposed to be sober, scientifically grounded leaders. So, when Josh Boger, chief executive of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. , showed a slide last year comparing one of the drugs his Cambridge company is developing to Apple's iPod, he raised a lot of eyebrows.
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It was almost two years ago that Roy Romanow released his landmark report on the future of medicare. Since then, the study has too often been used as a battering ram by premiers seeking more money from Ottawa.
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(CP) - Ottawa would never agree to the kind of national pharmacare program proposed by the premiers because it would cost too much and makes no sense, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Tuesday.
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TORONTO, Jan. 6 -- The Canadian health minister plans to restrict the supply of inexpensive prescription drugs shipped to about 2 million patients in the United States each year, and industry officials here are saying President Bush is behind the move.
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NEW YORK (CBS) The recent recall of the arthritis drug Vioxx has a lot of patients worried about the contents of their medicine cabinets and wondering what the alternatives might be.
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HAMILTON, Ont. (CP) - Ontario&#39;s top priority is reducing health care wait times and pharmacare is just one means to that end, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Saturday as he backed away from the provinces&#39; demand for a national drug plan.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week&#39;s high-stakes health-care summit.
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Canada&#39;s premiers are hopeful that Prime Minister Paul Martin&#39;s tenuous grip on a minority government will give them leverage to drive a hard bargain at this week&#39;s high-stakes health-care summit.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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WASHINGTON -- Millions of Medicaid patients and their pharmacists could be in for a nasty surprise Oct. 1.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein called it a stroke of brilliance and his provincial counterparts thought it a great idea - a national pharmacare program something like the country&#39;s medicare program.
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Liberal Senator Terry Mercer is urging the federal government to get more serious about considering the idea of establishing a national pharmacare program which provincial premiers have been calling for.
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Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, the drug safety gadfly, is on something of a roll.
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The issue of drug advertising directly aimed at consumers is becoming political.
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Pharmacists say a government report released Thursday validates their concerns that payments under the Medicare drug benefit are driving some of them out of business.
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CANADA has opened its doors to a company that develops cannabis-based medicines which was knocked back for more tests in the UK. GW Pharmaceuticals celebrated the major landmark of a country giving preliminary approval for its Savitex mouth spray.