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Hub Dialogues: Durhane Wong-Rieger on rare disorders and the risks of single-payer pharmacare

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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The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.


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