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THE HILLS TIMES | Cancer drugs costly for many Canadians, free for others
Prescription drug coverage is a major problem in Canada. Canadians not only pay significantly more for medication than consumers in many other developed countries but many inequities in access exist, says Mark Sorin, a student in the MD/PhD Program at McGill University and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, the Canada research chair on policies and health inequalities and director of the observatory on health and social services reforms at McGill University.
With oral cancer drugs being fully covered in Western Canada and Quebec but not in other provinces, two patients requiring the same oral cancer drug in two different provinces will have very different experiences.