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‘Hugely, hugely detrimental to patients’: Durhane Wong-Rieger on treating rare diseases and the risks of single-payer pharmacare

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Minister of Health Mark Holland speaks about new national pharmacare legislation during a press conference, Ottawa, Feb. 29, 2024. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press.

Durhane Wong-Rieger, the president and CEO of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, discusses the challenges that Canadians with rare disorders face in getting access to drugs and the risk that single-payer pharmacare exacerbates them by focusing too much on cost control and too little on the benefits of personalized medicine.

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