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Private Market Policy Summit Report 2025: Collaboration. Clarity. A Call to Action.
The 2025 Summit brought together insurers, advisors, manufacturers, pharmacists, and patient advocates to discuss the future of Canada’s dual drug coverage model. With over 27 million Canadians relying on private
Access and Affordability: Building Fiscally Responsible Pharmacare Systems
A new C.D. Howe Institute Report concludes that Canada’s best path to pharmacare is through targeted reforms—closing coverage gaps while preserving the mixed public-private model. With most Canadians already insured,
Sounding Board: What plan sponsors should know about pharmacare
Plan sponsors worried about the expense and sustainability of their drug plan might initially embrace a pharmacare plan, hoping to shift drug costs to a new program funded by provincial
Featured Research Reports
We work alongside employers and policymakers to evolve workplace benefit plans so they better support employees’ physical, mental, and financial health needs.
Modernizing the Medical Expense Tax Credit (METC)
The Medical Expense Tax Credit (METC) in Canada, a non-refundable tax credit for qualifying medical expenses, can be updated to include preventive health and wellness expenses.
Reconsideration of C-64 Legislative Costing Note Conclusions
On behalf of the Smart Health Benefits Coalition, we are writing to seek reconsideration of the Legislative Costing Note for Bill C-64 issued on May 15, 2024, and which you
Pharmacare Bill Confirmed to Cost Billions More and Eliminate Patient Choice
The current federal pharmacare legislation (Bill C-64) threatens to balloon in cost, disrupt coverage and limit patient choice, and millions of Canadians stand to lose portions of their employer-sponsored drug
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