Premiers love to quote Mr. Romanows report selectively, especially the parts about more federal money. Perhaps they should read what he had to say about drugs: A national drug agency would provide governments more influence on pharmaceutical companies in order to try to constrain the ever-increasing cost of drugs.
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So when the premiers gather in Niagara Falls to assemble their usual complaint list, they should also get cracking about something in their jurisdiction that would help their budgets and patients.
Quebecs resistance to a national agency is provincialist ideology. One of the first advocates for a national list was a researcher at Laval University. Quebecs Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from 14.3 per cent to 26.8 per cent!
Or they could read Mr. Kirbys report: The substantial buying power or such an agency would strengthen the pubic prescription-drug insurance plans to negotiate the lowest possible purchase prices from drug companies.
What does national mean? Roy Romano and Senator Michael Kirby recommended a federal-provincial body much like the recently created National Health Council.
The problem is simple and stark: health-care costs have been, are, and will continue to increase faster than government revenues.
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, Prescription drug costs have risen since 1997 at twice the rate of overall health-care spending. Part of the increase comes from drugs being used to replace other kinds of treatments. Part of it arises from new drugs costing more than older kinds. Part of it is higher prices.
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