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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Blanchard Favours Talks On Generic Drug Pricing

It doesn't look as if pharmacists will be negotiating with the province about generic drug pricing.

They have been told by Provincial Health Minister Madelaine Dube the government has all the information it needs to make a decision which will be unveiled in the spring. 

That doesn't sound good to Paul Blanchard, the Executive-Director of the New Brunswick Pharmacists Association.  He says his pessimism comes with years of experience and the absence of information, communication and dialogue does not foster a lot of trust and that is making his members angry.

How that anger might manifest itself remains to be seen but Blanchard says the province was given a proposal by the pharmacists a year ago that would have saved the government between 7 and 8 million dollars a year.