Cutting Square Deals: Drug Prices, Regulation, and Patent Protection
Canada’s Efforts to Reduce Drug Prices Should Avoid “Free Riding” Canada’s efforts to reduce pharmaceutical prices should not come at the cost of contributing our fair share to developing new treatment innovations, and should rely more on negotiations with manufacturers than regulation, according to a new paper released by the C.D. Howe Institute. Authors Åke […] Drummond, Sinclair, Gladkov – Reach For The Healthcare Podium
From: Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair and Philipp Gladkov To: Canadians concerned about healthcare Date: August 13, 2021 Re: Reach for the Healthcare Podium Healthcare’s goals are two-fold. Treating people to help them recover from ill-health, injury, and disability has been the predominant focus since the establishment of medicare as a key component of Canada’s social safety net. Meanwhile, optimizing […] Best in Health: Creating a Comprehensive Health Information Ecosystem
Canada Needs a Broader Vision of Healthcare Canada needs a broader vision of healthcare that balances restoring health, the current focus, with promoting health, according to a working paper released by the C.D. Howe Institute. Authors Don Drummond, Duncan Sinclair and Philipp Gladkov discuss how this balance can be corrected, while consolidating Canada’s fragmented health data […] S3 E15: The Charter and Vaccine Passports
As the debate over vaccine passports continues, time is slipping away. In the report “Vaccine Ins and Outs: An Exploration of the Legal Issues Raised by Vaccine Passports,” two of its authors joined the C.D. Howe Institute Podcast to explain why a well designed passport will work – and is critical to putting COVID-19 behind us. Thomas, Flood, Krishnamurthy, Tanner, Wilson – Are Vaccine Passports Discriminatory?
From: Bryan Thomas, Colleen M. Flood, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Ryan Tanner and Kumanan Wilson To: Canadians Concerned about Vaccine Passports Date: July 29, 2021 Re: Are Vaccine Passports Discriminatory? Our new C.D. Howe Institute Working Paper explores the legal dimensions of vaccine passports under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the privacy implications of such a system and other facets. […] Blomqvist, Grootendorst – Selling Drugs To The Us
From: Åke Blomqvist and Paul Grootendorst To: The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health Date: July 22, 2021 Re: Selling Drugs to the US President Joe Biden recently announced his intention to work with state governments to encourage American buyers to import pharmaceuticals from Canada, where drug prices are lower. The government of Canada should […] Vaccine Ins and Outs: An Exploration of the Legal Issues Raised by Vaccine Passports
Assessing the Legal Hurdles to Vaccine Passports In this report five leading experts in health law and medicine at the University of Ottawa examine vaccine passports in the context of Charter rights, privacy rights, and implementation. The paper first explores whether a vaccine passport regime would infringe Charter rights, including mobility rights, rights to liberty […] Thomas, Flood, Krishnamurthy, Tanner And Wilson – Four Privacy Choices For Vaccine Passports
From: Bryan Thomas, Colleen M. Flood, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Ryan Tanner and Kumanan Wilson To: Canadians Concerned about Vaccine Passports Date: July 12, 2021 Re: Four Privacy Choices for Vaccine Passports There are at least four fundamental choices regarding the design of vaccine passport systems that bear upon their privacy impacts that we discuss in our forthcoming C.D. Howe Institute […] COVID-19: The C.D. Howe Institute’s Complete Policy Analysis
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, C.D. Howe Institute experts have been busy tackling the policy challenges that the global pandemic has created. On this page, readers can find our most recent reports from our Crisis Working Groups, Intelligence Memos, op-eds, media appearances and more addressing the issues affecting Canadians and the economy in these troubled times. Data and […] Rosalie Wyonch on The Agenda – Can Ontario Afford Its Health Spending?
Healthcare spending was an ongoing concern before the pandemic hit. Now, with so much upended by COVID-19, can the province find a way forward? C.D. Howe Institute Senior Policy Analyst Rosalie Wyonch spoke to Steve Paikin alongside Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard and Sheila Block, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Ian Irvine – Vaping Is Less Toxic Than Smoking, So Why Tax It The Same?
From: Ian Irvine To: Anti-smoking Canadians Date: May 17, 2021 Re: Vaping is Less Toxic than Smoking, so Why Tax it the Same? Embedded in last month’s budget was news of a federal special excise levy on vaping products in 2022. At present, no such levy is imposed, although several provinces have introduced levies on each millilitre sold (Nova […] Don Drummond – Provincial Demands For Higher Canada Health Transfers
From: Don Drummond To: Provincial Premiers and Ministers of Health Date: May 14, 2021 Re: Provincial Demands for Higher Canada Health Transfers Conspicuously absent from the big-spending federal budget last month is any increase in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), a seeming rejection of provincial calls for an immediate increase of $27.7 billion and growing amounts thereafter. […]