The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s mandate is to make sure that drug prices are not excessive. However, new guidelines that change criteria for assessing prices may lead to higher prices.

Note, this article is from a few weeks ago

  • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
    11·
    3 days ago

    Canadian drug prices are already the fourth highest in the industrialized world.

    Liberal or conservative, our government is a machine for selling Canadians’ quality of life to businesses.

  • patatas@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    3 days ago

    Brutal. This, combined with Ottawa abandoning new pharmacare deals with provinces, will make life more expensive for all of us, to the benefit of large corporations.

    Can’t wait to hear how the Carney faithful spin this one.

    • Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca
      5·
      3 days ago

      “but he’s obviously smarter than us mere pleebs”

      This shit is how 'murica ended up with a dictator.