It Pays to Drive a Hard Bargain

Colleen M. Flood, “It Pays to Drive a Hard Bargain” (2011) The Mark.

Canadians spend a lot of money (both public and private) on health care, and much of that is spent on drugs: The country spent some $23.4 billion on drugs in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand-name equivalent.