Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to prescription drug coverage, our health system has plenty in common with the United States – and that’s not a good thing
Author: Colleen Flood
Colleen Flood is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and a University Research Chair in Health Law & Policy. From 2000-2015 Colleen Flood was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Her primary areas of scholarship are in comparative health care law and policy, public/private financing of health care systems, health care reform, constitutional law, administrative law, and accountability and governance issues.
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