It is a difficult issue to understand, and admittedly it took all of us in the community who are not health economists a while. I don't profess to be a health economist. My background is certainly coming up through the pharmaceutical organization.
What we understood going forward was that, when you look at the current basket of countries, Canada has a favourable position whereby we get early access because of the pricing and the comparative countries being used. With the new proposed changes, that does put us in a situation where a lot of lower-cost countries are put now in the comparative basket, compared to where we currently are with the seven countries being referenced. Because of that, what it actually means for patients, and all future patients in Canada, is that, with a less favourable pricing regime, this will potentially affect the opportunity to stay an early-launch drug country.
Secondly, it may not foster an environment where global companies will look to Canada for clinical trials. That is the reality of being 2% of a global picture, that Canada unfortunately may be at risk for not bringing that innovation, starting at its earliest point, here, which is the earliest point for people such as Ian and his daughter to have access to new treatments that may help them.
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