Federal cost of a national pharmacare program .: YN5-127/2017E-PDF
“In September 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health asked the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) to provide a cost estimate of implementing a national Pharmacare program. The Committee provided the program’s framework, including the inclusive list of drugs to be covered by Pharmacare based on Quebec’s formulary, eligibility requirements, co-payment levels, and eligibility requirements for co-payment exemptions. This paper estimates the cost to the federal government of implementing this particular framework for Pharmacare. It incorporates PBO’s assumptions of the potential savings resulting from a stronger position for drug price negotiations, consumption or behavioural responses of providing coverage, and potential changes in the drug market composition. In addition, this paper provides five-year projections of these federal costs. However, the costs associated with a single administrator of drug benefit claims when compared to multiple administrators both public and private are not considered"--Executive summary, p. 1.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer. |
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| Title | Federal cost of a national pharmacare program . |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Coût d’un programme national d’assurance-médicaments de régie fédérale. Cover title. "28 September 2017." Written by: Carleigh Busby. Cf. p. [3] of cover. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Publishing information | Ottawa : Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, 2017. |
| Author / Contributor | Busby, Carleigh. |
| Description | 88 p. : col. charts |
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| Subject terms | Drug insurance Costs |