北美时报：安省药物改革争议引人瞩目

Pharmacy cuts is bad for Ontario This is not good legislation for the people of Ontario. It has been said that this will benefit the patient — however, it will not benefit the patient when they cannot find a pharmacy in their hometown or talk to a pharmacist when they need one. the proposals for reform will have a negative effect on people in Ontario. In 2003, the government in South Africa introduced a similar scheme that eliminated all forms of rebates and discounts and failed to properly provide replacement funding for pharmacies. As a consequence, over 500 community pharmacies closed. McGuinty government is proposing a massive funding cut to community pharmacies in the amount of $1 billion a year. This is equivalent to cutting approximately three pharmacists from each pharmacy in Ontario. What you may not know is the impact this will have on seniors, young families and basically anyone who walks into the pharmacy to see their pharmacist. How many more unnecessary emergency room visits will there be if pharmacists are unavailable to the public when their doctor’s offices are closed? How much will this cost the Ontario health-care system?

Why are there so many pharm students all of a sudden...

The issue is with Canada's free health care system, the $6 difference of dispensing fee has to be covered either by Ontario government or patient. Ontario government does not want to pay for it, they lost billions in eHealth scandals, so in the end, patients have to pay for it. Lower the drug price is a good thing, but Ontario government has to cover $14 dispensing fee for those ODB (Ontario Drug Benefit) patients, mostly seninors.

如果是6楼说的那样，那就是政府把应该补助的资金让消费者自己来付。 如果通过这个法案，政府不能肯定的保证所有省下的资金就按他们说的分布。因为本来加拿大的Politicians就是骗子，在选举的时候可以说一半的真话，一半的假话

You only see one side of the coin, not the other side. The average cost for dispensing a prescription in Canada is $14. Currently Ontario government only allows pharmacist charges $7. Under the new plan, it will be $8. The missing $6 will have to be gotten from the patients. There is no other way to maintain the cost for Pharmacist and provide any extra service. If you have been in USA or Europe, you will see the different service from those countries' pharmacies. For example, the big USA pharmacy stores has instructed pharmacist NOT TO TALK to the patients, because it will slow down the prescription process and increase the cost. Here, in Canada, a lot of patients rely on their pharmacists when dealing with drugs. Lots of pharmacists know the patients for more than 10-20 years. With this reform, all this consultation will be diminished, also the currently free home delivery service will charge cost to the patients. It ends up eventually that patients need to pay more to get the same or even less service than currently they are enjoying. Canada is an aging country, more and more people are in their 60-70's, and the number of prescriptions are increasing steadily. With this reform, I can see that in the mid term, Ontario's new graduated pharmacists will be harder to find the job. In the long term it will be bad for the Ontario residents.

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The massive health cuts brought down by the Ontario government to pharmacies mean one thing for Ontarians: additional overburdened health care staff that will struggle to provide the appropriate level of service that Ontario’s most vulnerable need and deserve. it is clear that the McGuinty government doesn’t place any value on the front-line services provided the people of this province. It is clear that the health minister doesn’t think that a senior or someone who is chronically ill in this province deserves one-on-one consultations with a health care provider whenever it’s needed. It is clear this government believes that the province’s most vulnerable can and should carry the heavy burden of their latest health care funding cuts The deep impact of these cuts means that some pharmacies in rural and remote parts of this province will have to permanently shut their doors or drastically reduce hours of service. In many of these cases, these pharmacists are the only health care providers that are available for hundreds of kilometres, or the only readily accessible health care professional due to the province’s family physician shortage. With these health cuts many vital pharmacy services will either no longer be economically feasible to offer, or will no longer be provided at no cost to patients. Services at risk include delivery service, one-on-one medication counselling, compliance packaging, diabetic counselling and meter training, home health care fittings and counselling, prescription refill MD fax authorizations, and many more.

Shoppers Drug Mart不但药贵，其他统统都贵。而且不是贵一点点，是贵很多。傻子才去那里买东西。 不过药厂为什么要给药房钱？放开药房，药就会像超市那样竞争，就会便宜太多了。

太好啦！药房的利润也太高了。药厂商给药房的药都是很低价，还有回扣。可是药房卖出来的价真是贵得吓人！叫人不敢生病！有病也拖着。