CBC: A Universal Canadian Single-Payer Prescription Drug Program Would Save Billions.

[TrollBuster9090]

Canada already has a highly popular and successful universal, single-payer healthcare program. A group of UBC healthcare economists have now published a paper claiming that adding a universal, single-payer prescription drug program (where everybody's prescriptions are payed out of general tax revenues, rather than out of pocket) would save the government billions of dollars.

[diddlysquat]

1. I had no idea that..

the Canadian health care system did not cover drugs. Makes a big difference.

[Fred Sanders]

3. No, but employers routinely provide insurance and there are Provincial low income and child drug program and drugs are

a fraction of the cost.

[phantom power]

2. I wonder how many times the GOP would vote to repeal that?

[FairWinds]

4. What a concept . .

using actual research to make public heath policy.
It could never happen in the US because we are so diverse, multi-ethnic . .
or something. (Humor alert!)
Slight quibble - the study says that Canadian society as a whole would save billions,
not just the government.