1 in 4 Canadian can’t afford their prescriptions according to new poll
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PRINCE GEORGE— The Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cancer society released a leger poll that reports 22 percent of Canadians are skipping, splitting, or stopping their prescriptions due to the costs of the medication; something that doesn’t surprise local pharmacist Brianna Pallot.
Pallot explains that new medication is often the most expensive leading to patients having difficulties affording them.
“When a medication comes out, there’s a brand name and that has a patent on it, which means we cannot have generic formulation,” says Pallot. “That company can charge technically as much as they want for the medication and because it has very good evidence, we want patients to take it because of the benefits. But if there’s no generic formulation, we literally can’t get any cheaper version until that patent is over.”
