Tag Archives: cost-effectiveness

Rethinking the financing of healthcare in Canada

Canadians need to talk about their healthcare, about who pays for what, when. Lack of money is not the issue; how that money is spent is the issue—what public healthcare is covering and not covering. The same dollar amount can be spent quite differently and more effectively. The 1950s first-dollar, single-payor decision shifted the burden

Economic and Clinical Net Benefits from the Use of Samarium Sm-153 Lexidronam Injection in the Treatment of Bone Metastases

International Journal of Tumor Therapy 2013 D. Wayne Taylor, The Cameron Institute and McMaster University, Hamilton Samarium Sm-153 Lexidronam Injection (Samarium-153) is used to treat bone pain that results when cancer spreads to the bone. It has been on the market since 1997 but still is not funded by any one of the 10 provincial