Wrestling with Big Pharma
Colleen M. Flood, “Wrestling with Big Pharma” (2011) The Toronto Star
Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion 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.
