Drug battle
Posted May 5, 2010 08:48:21 AM.
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Ontario’s health minister says it’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the province’s generic drug reforms.
Deb Matthews says it’s wrong to say that eliminating the fees paid to pharmacists by drug companies will reduce health care quality.
The province says the reforms will cut the price of generic drugs in half.
But pharmacists argue the plan will devastate smaller independent and rural pharmacies.