Health committee  Any time. Thank you.

Health committee  What needs to happen is that a national formulary needs to be developed, and that is definitely going to include the medications that Canadians need most. Then there needs to be a process by which other medications can be included or applied for. We know that the major lack in ou

Health committee  I am, yes.

Health committee  It sounds right. I don't have those numbers in front of me, but looking at the levels of poverty in our province and at what Mr. Romanow spoke to—or maybe it was Greg Marchildon—the fact is that Atlantic Canada is less able than other provinces to supply both public and private p

Health committee  We do use the CMAJ study as one of our main peer reviewed evidence-based studies showing the cost savings. It was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It was peer reviewed. It was done by Steve Morgan, an economist at UBC, along with several other health policy

Health committee  Our organization has endorsed the Pharmacare 2020 plan. If you search Pharmacare 2020, you'll find that it's by some of the same people who put together the study that was in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. As has been said today, the actual implementation is a complica

Health committee  Your question is, how will we cover everybody?

Health committee  I'm not sure I understand the question.

Health committee  The myths specific to pharmacare or to medicare in general?

Health committee  Relative to pharmacare, I guess a myth that's come out through the discussion today is that our current plans are doing a good job. First, it is clear that private insurance plans aren't covering what people need, that they aren't covering enough, and we don't get good value fo

Health committee  Right.

Health committee  We know that about 6.5% of hospital admissions in Canada are the result of non-adherence, or people not taking their medication. In light of the present over-capacity in hospitals, to decrease that by 6.5% would be significant. In Canada, non-adherence is estimated to cost betwee

Health committee  I can get that to you. It's all in the submission that was given.

Health committee  No, I disagree. I think a system could be set up in which the medications that Canadians need most would be accessible through that system. If there were to be exceptions, a process could be put in place for that. The argument that having more access to more medications is better

Health committee  I was going to apologize for that. I was excited to see Roy Romanow and forgot I was on screen.