{"id":2031,"date":"2015-10-19T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:33","slug":"cross-appointee-marc-andre-gagnons-grades-federal-parties-on-prescription-drug-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/2015\/cross-appointee-marc-andre-gagnons-grades-federal-parties-on-prescription-drug-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-appointee Marc-Andr\u00e9 Gagnon Grades Federal Parties on Prescription Drug Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cross-appointee Marc-Andr\u00e9 Gagnon Grades Federal Parties on Prescription Drug Coverage\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In an article published October 17 in Policy Options, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2015\/10\/17\/federal-elections-and-prescription-drugs-a-grade-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Elections and Prescription Drugs: A Grade Report<\/a>,&#8221; Gagnon analyzes proposals from five federal parties on prescription drug reform:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Canada and the United States are the only two OECD countries that do not provide public coverage to enable access to prescription drugs for the entire population. The fragmentation of drug insurance plans between private and provincial public plans has led to an incoherent system where waste and the interplay of corporate interests are prevalent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed site\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"main-container\" class=\"wrapper clearfix\">\n<div class=\"container-fix\">\n<article id=\"post-21249\" class=\"post-21249 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-economy category-politics category-science-tech tag-drug-prices tag-elections tag-health-policy tag-pharmacare tag-prescription-drugs tag-social-policy\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>After the United States, Canadians pay the highest costs per capita for prescription drugs ($771), which is 55% more than the average for OECD countries ($498). There are two reasons for that difference with the other OECD countries: 1 we pay more for the same drugs (since the fragmentation of plans reduces bargaining power); 2 the private plans lead to a logic of waste where all products are reimbursed, regardless of their therapeutic value.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2015\/10\/17\/federal-elections-and-prescription-drugs-a-grade-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">See the full article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published October 17 in Policy Options, entitled &#8220;Federal Elections and Prescription Drugs: A Grade Report,&#8221; Gagnon analyzes proposals from five federal parties on prescription drug reform: Canada and the United States are the only two OECD countries that do not provide public coverage to enable access to prescription drugs for the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}