drugs for a group of Minnesota Senior Citizens from the United States 22 October, 2003 who have traveled nine hours by bus across the US-Canadian border to Winnipeg, Canada to buy cheaper drugs. The Minnesota Senior Federation has set up monthly bus trip to Canada to buy cheaper drugs, with some people saving over 60 percent of the cost of their prescriptions, from what they would pay for the same drugs in the United States. AFP PHOTO/Jeff HAYNES is a drug to treat schizophrenia.
Canada is not the only country to say no to drugs that are not priced to yield cost effective treatments. For example, the UK and Australia also conduct economic analyses before deciding whether to reimburse new drugs.in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at 206 drugs approved by the FDA between 2017 and 2020. The study authors, led by Catherine Pham , explored the fate of those drugs in Canada, UK, and Australia.