Trade deals are bad medicine: Drug prices will skyrocket in absence of national pharmacare

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In a recent House of Commons committee on health, Health Canada finally acknowledged what health economists, academics and activists had been saying for some time: drug costs will rise under pending trade deals like the TPP.