Second high-profile resignation hits Ottawa’s drug-price regulator amid assertions government is interfering with reform process
medication costs after two resignations from the country’s drug-price regulator and assertions Ottawa is interfering with the reform process.
Mr. Clark will remain as a special adviser to the board as he transitions to retirement, according to a government press release published Friday. No reason was given for Mr. Clark’s departure and he did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Herder’s letter singled out the federal government’s request last year that the PMPRB suspend the long-awaited implementation of new guidelines designed to help prevent excessive drug pricing. He said the reasons for the government’s request “were largely indistinguishable in form and substance from industry talking points.”Drug prices in Canada are among the highest in the world.
Critics argued that the regulations became too watered down as a result. Meanwhile, guidelines still had to be put into force in order for even the remaining new rules to take effect.
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