Photo by The Javorac/Flickr When Justice Emmett Hall released his iconic 1964 report that paved the way for medicare, he envisaged that after universal coverage for doctors, the next step would be prescription drugs, but that next step got delayed and we are still waiting. In 2018, things looked promising
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Canadian Dimension: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Contemporary Capitalism
Photo from Public Domain The pharmaceutical industry has remained near or at the top of the list for profitability for many decades. The myth is that its profits come from producing and selling the many therapeutic advances that industry research has generated, but the reality is far different. In the
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