ArticleHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2012
Canadian pharmacare: looking back, looking forward.
Article in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pharmaceutical policies: effects of regulating drug insurance schemes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Acceptability of a short list of essential medicines to patients and prescribers: Multimethod study.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022Article
- After More Than 50 Years, Pharmacare (and Dental Care) are Coming to Canada.International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation · 2022Article
- It Won't Be Easy: How to Make Universal Pharmacare Work in Canada.International journal of health policy and management · 2020Article
- Should national pharmacare apply a value-based insurance design?CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2019Article
- Community members co-designing a trial of medication access.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018Article
- Evaluating the effects of Quebec's private-public drug insurance system.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2017Review
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Precarious Solidarity-Preferential Access in Canadian Health Care.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2017Article
- Medication access via hospital admission.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2017Article
- National pharmacare: Time to move forward.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016Article
- [Assurance-médicaments nationale: Le moment d'aller de l'avant].Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016Article
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Abstract
Despite Canadians' pride in medicare and the values underpinning it, the system is conspicuously incomplete. Universal public health insurance in Canada ends as soon as a patient is handed a prescription to fill; yet prescription drugs are the second largest component of health system costs. We look back at key moments in Canadian healthcare history that shaped our pharmacare system - or lack thereof. We look forward to changes in demography and technology that will increase the need for pharmacare reform in the near future. We conclude that meaningful public engagement in pharmacare design may generate the clarity of goals and level of political support needed should windows of policy opportunity open again.
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