RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Quebec employs user-pay philosophy in launching drug-insurance plan
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1604
OP 1605
VO 155
IS 11
A1 Martin, M.
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/11/1604.abstract
AB The Quebec government has introduced a new provincial drug-insurance scheme that by January 1997 will provide coverage to all Quebecers. The first phase of the measure, which was instituted for reasons that were partly financial and partly social, came into effect in August, to the chagrin of the province's welfare recipients and elderly. They are the first to pay 25% of the cost of prescriptions under the new copayment plan.