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Review
. 2017 Oct 10;189(40):E1259-E1263.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170726.

Evaluating the effects of Quebec's private-public drug insurance system

Steven G Morgan  1 , Marc-André Gagnon  2 , Mathieu Charbonneau  2 , Alain Vadeboncoeur  2
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Review

Evaluating the effects of Quebec's private-public drug insurance system

Steven G Morgan et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Marc-André Gagnon reports a grant from Health Canada and personal fees from Prescrire International and from the Canadian Association of Pharmacy in Oncology, all outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Expenditure per capita on prescription drugs from 1985 to 2016 in Quebec and the rest of Canada, (A) tax-financed versus (B) household- and employer-financed. Source: Authors’ calculations-based data from Canadian Institute for Health Information National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975 to 2016. Tax-financed expenditures are those paid through government general revenues; household- and employer-financed expenditures are those paid out of pocket or through premium contributions to mandatory private or public insurance plans. Quebec data for 2015 and 2016 projected based on five-year average growth rates.
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