Reading Time: 5 minutes Public acceptance of vaccines will depend on how confident people are that the best decisions have been made about which vaccines to purchase. That means eliminating conflicts of interest
Author: Marc-André Gagnon
Dr. Gagnon’s empirical research focuses on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector: business models, innovation policies, corporate influence over medical practices, health and drug insurance regimes.
From a more theoretical standpoint, his research analyzes capital accumulation and corporate competition in terms of how firms capitalize not only their productive capacity but also their capacities and their business network powers to influence laws, public policies, culture and socio-institutional settings in order to accrue monopolistic differential gains.
Free medicines for rich kids is a fair and efficient policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Universality is no free ride for the rich. If everyone pays, say, a one per cent income tax for universal drug coverage, the millionaire will pay much more
Quebec’s prescription drug plan no cure-all for rest of Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes It won’t work for Canada because it no longer works for Quebec