BC Drug Coverage

• Woman with blood disorder finds B.C. is only province not to cover ‘life-changing’ drug

  Joey Kerr was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which is a rare blood disorder where bone marrow fails to produce healthy blood cells.

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  Dec 18, 2025
  
• B.C. PharmaCare program approves additional drugs, expands coverage

  The drugs treat conditions including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, severely low blood sugar, migraines, low white blood cell levels, multiple sclerosis and heart failure.

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  May 2, 2022
  
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• ‘A devastating feeling’: Sooke boy denied coverage for rare drug for 3rd time

  “I just see dollar signs with our current situation."

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  Jan 6, 2018
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• B.C. women to get free access to abortion drug Mifegymiso

  Until now, some users would have had to pay about $300 to get access to Mifegymiso.

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  Jan 2, 2018
• New calls for B.C. to cover cost of ‘life-changing’ cystic fibrosis drug

  "We have a chance right now to make it so my generation is the last one to deal with [this]."

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  Nov 29, 2017
• B.C. government approves coverage of expensive drug for student with rare disease

  The medicine costs approximately $750,000 a year and can improve a patient’s condition who’s living with aHUS.

  Nov 21, 2017