BILL NO. 71

(as introduced)

1st Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
67 Elizabeth II, 2018

Private Member's Bill

Fair Drug Pricing Act
(amended)

Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre

First Reading: February 28, 2018

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill requires the Minister of Health and Wellness to establish a program, under which every resident of Nova Scotia under the age of 25 who has a health card will receive designated prescription drug coverage at no cost.

An Act to Amend Chapter 7
of the Acts of 2011,
the Fair Drug Pricing Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 3 of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 2011, the Fair Drug Pricing Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsections:

(3) The Minister shall establish a program under the Plan entitled the Child and Youth Pharmacare Plan.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), the Child and Youth Pharmacare Plan must

(a) include as a beneficiary every resident of the Province under the age of 25 who is insured under Section 3 of the Health Services and Insurance Act;

(b) provided full coverage of the cost of any drug designated as a benefit under Section 10; and

(c) require no enrolment fees, co-pay or deductibles.

(5) The money required for the purpose of subsection (4) must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.

2 Clause 3(4)(a) of Chapter 7, as enacted by this Act, is amended by striking out "insured under Section 3 of the Health Services and Insurance" and substituting "an insured person as defined in the Insured Health Services".