Abstract

Escalating medication prices are forcing drug benefit programs worldwide to change their payment policies. Physicians object that this intrudes on their long established authority to prescribe medications they judge best for their patients. This paper reports data from focus groups and a large random sample of seniors in British Columbia who were asked for their views towards Pharmacare's reference based * Presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, 1996, November. Research funded by the Seniors Independence Research Program (SIRP) through NHRDP, Health Canada.

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