Canada has long been the only high-income country with a universal health insurance system that excludes universal coverage of prescription drugs. In this podcast, Steve Morgan and Michael Wolfson, two prominent health policy and economics researchers, propose a detailed funding model for national pharmacare that would result in savings. Steve Morgan is a professor of health policy in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He has studied prescription drug coverage and pricing policies for many years.Michael Wolfson is adjunct professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and was Assistant Chief Statistician a Statistics Canada up until his retirement in 2009.They co-wrote an analysis article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.Full analysis article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.180897To request a transcript of this podcast, contact [email protected] to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

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