Forcing Canadians to switch from life-changing drugs saves millions. Do patients pay a price? | CBC News

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Starting this spring, the Ontario government is forcing Olivia Roman and all other patients on biologics to switch from drugs they know are working to similar ones that are also expected to keep their illness at bay.

 

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LaurenPelley with the recent price drops for Novolog and similar biologic insulin why aren’t those cost savings enough to allow patients to continue using biologic insulin?

Biosimilars can be scary if we don't have all the information. Alberta switched a few years ago. Here's information rheum shared with our patients.

No thank you

Doug putting an extension on the cottage?

Why not call it what it is? Generic. Most provinces have used these for years.

Oh look, Goverment again taking control of your health. Since Covid Vs had such a great response to forced medical. Guess more and more will be dictated by buisness($) rather then health. Can't wait for forced Maid to rear its head.

CBC is just full of bs ! They should be banned from online platforms like this as they racist unethical liars and deserve not to be on Twitter! Kick cbc off Twitter there a danger to society

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