Morgan Steven G, Daw Jamie R
Associate Professor and Associate Director, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Healthc Policy. 2012 Aug;8(1):14-23.
Despite Canadians' pride in medicare and the values underpinning it, the system is conspicuously incomplete. Universal public health insurance in Canada ends as soon as a patient is handed a prescription to fill; yet prescription drugs are the second largest component of health system costs. We look back at key moments in Canadian healthcare history that shaped our pharmacare system - or lack thereof. We look forward to changes in demography and technology that will increase the need for pharmacare reform in the near future. We conclude that meaningful public engagement in pharmacare design may generate the clarity of goals and level of political support needed should windows of policy opportunity open again.
尽管加拿大人对医疗保险及其所秉持的价值观深感自豪,但该体系明显并不完善。在加拿大,一旦患者拿到处方去配药,全民公共医疗保险就终止了;然而处方药却是医疗系统成本的第二大组成部分。我们回顾了加拿大医疗保健历史上塑造我们的药物护理体系(或缺乏该体系)的关键时刻。我们展望人口结构和技术方面的变化,这些变化将在不久的将来增加药物护理改革的必要性。我们得出结论,公众有意义地参与药物护理设计,可能会在政策机遇之窗再次开启时,产生所需的目标清晰度和政治支持力度。