The Medical Freedom Channel

“Unsustainable growth in the Canadian government’s spending on health is a result of the flawed design of government health and drug insurance programs, not the price of medical treatment or the introduction of new medical technologies like patented drugs, concludes a new study by the Fraser Institute. Prescription drugs in general and patented drugs in particular account for a small percentage of government health spending. The fact that government spending on all other areas of health care is growing at unsustainable rates, while accounting for more than 90 per cent of total government health spending, strongly suggests that targeting prescription drugs is misguided, says study author Brett Skinner.” (05/15/08)