About 3.5 million people in Canada do not have adequate private or public insurance protecting them from the costs of catastrophic drug expenses.
He says a CDC program could be developed in just a few months and implemented soon after.
A national catastrophic drug coverage program was the cornerstone of the NPS, which released a progress report in September.
For some background information on the NPS, click here.
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