Steve Morgan, PhD
University of British Columbia
Access to, Financing of Prescription Drugs
604-822-7012 | [email protected] | @SteveUBC
Dr. Steve Morgan is Professor of Health Policy at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. An expert in pharmaceutical policy, Dr. Morgan combines quantitative health services research with comparative policy analysis to help identify policies that achieve balance between three sometimes-competing goals: providing equitable access to necessary care, managing health expenditures, and promoting valued innovation.
Dr. Morgan earned degrees in economics from the University of Western Ontario, Queen’s University, and the University of British Columbia; and received postdoctoral training at McMaster University. He is a recipient of career awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, an alumnus of Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy, and a former Labelle Lecturer in Health Services Research.
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Commentaries by Dr. Steve Morgan:
Four reasons Canada needs universal pharmacare and what Canadians can do to make it happen now
Pharmacare is for kids too
The other drug problem in Canada’s cities
Pharmacare is good for business
Four things needed to make pharmacare work for Canadians
How to create an affordable prescription drug plan // L’assurance obligatoire ne favorise pas un accès abordable aux médicaments d’ordonnance
Ontario spends more than $11 billion a year on prescription drugs
Prescription drug costs hurting Canadians // Les coûts des médicaments d’ordonnance pèsent lourd pour les Canadiens
Prescription drug spending flat, but not for long
New Brunswick drug plan has great potential
Why Ontario should pioneer the expansion of prescription drug coverage in Canada
Canadian medicare needs an Rx
How universal pharmacare might just save our health care system
Moving to income-based drug coverage is the wrong prescription
Our pharmacare system in Canada is designed to fail — and it’s costing us billions
Time to fight for pharmacare // Le temps est venu de se battre pour l’assurance médicaments
Time to repair the drug patent process in Canada
Fair Pharmacare fares poorly
Why, in a sea of pin, are so many cancer patients in the red? // Pourquoi, dans une mer de rose, tant de patientes atteintes de cancer se retrouvent-elles dans le rouge?
Why New Brunswick has to rethink pharmacare
Why an income-based drug plan is harmful to Ontario seniors
Audio Podcast: Why Canada needs a national pharmacare program, with Steve Morgan
Posters by Dr. Steve Morgan:
“If the per capita costs of pharmaceuticals in Canada were the same as the UK, we would spend $14 billion less on medicines every year. That is enough to pay annual salaries for 180,000 new nurses in Canada.”
Read the commentary: Canadian medicare needs an Rx
“Too few Canadians realize that they don’t have much, if any, coverage for prescription drugs. And too many Canadians only find this out when they get sick — and then face considerable financial burdens or, worse, real barriers to accessing the health care they need.”
Read the commentary: Why, in a sea of pink, are so many cancer patients in the red?
“Every developed country with a universal healthcare system provides universal coverage of prescription drugs… except Canada.”
Read the commentary: Canadian medicare needs an Rx
“Without universal pharmacare, many Canadians must choose their jobs – or when to retire – based on availability of prescription drug insurance rather than life and career ambition. This hurts workers, employers and our economy.”
Read the Commentary: Pharmacare is good for business
“Prescription drug prices in Canada are among the highest in the world, mostly because our myriad private drug plans dilute Canada’d potential purchasing power.”
Read the Commentary: Pharmacare is good for business
A universal pharmacare program would not only help the working poor, the uninsured and the sick, it would enable Canadian businesses to remain competitive.
Read the Commentary: Pharmacare is good for business
Millions of Canadians are without drug coverage and one in 10 Canadians cannot afford to fill their prescriptions.”
Read the Commentary: The other drug problem in Canada’s cities
This free ebook is a compilation of the EvidenceNetwork.ca commentaries published in major newspapers in 2015, written by experts in the health policy field.
