00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.855506 CaOODSP 20221107155322 cr ||||||||||| 180419s2018 oncad ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- XC62-1/1-421-14E-PDF Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Health. Pharmacare now [electronic resource] : prescription medicine coverage for all Canadians / Bill Casey, chair. Prescription medicine coverage for all Canadians [Ottawa] : House of Commons, Canada, 2018. x, 128 p. : col. charts, col. ill. Report of the Standing Committee on Health ; 14th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session Issued also in French under title: Un régime d’assurance médicament universel pour tous les canadiens : une nécessité. "April 2018." Original published on: 2018/04/18; published on: 2018/04/25, 2018/05/14. Includes bibliographical references. "Recognizing the critical importance of this issue to Canadians, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health (“the Committee”) agreed on 7 March 2016 to undertake a study on the development of a national pharmacare program as an insured service for Canadians under the Canada Health Act and to report the findings to the House. Drawing on witness testimony and the work of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), this report examines the role that the federal government could play in developing a national pharmacare program that would address the key challenges related to accessibility and affordability of prescription pharmaceuticals in Canada"--Introd., p. 1. gccst Drug insurance gccst Prescription drugs gccst Government policy Casey, Bill, 1945- Un régime d’assurance médicament universel pour tous les canadiens (CaOODSP)9.855509 Report of the Standing Committee on Health ; 14th report, 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (CaOODSP)9.507061 PDF 8.47 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/parl/xc62-1/XC62-1-1-421-14-eng.pdf