If there's medical proof that the pill will make him live longer, the governement should pay. 500 000$ divided by about 32 000 000 canadians represent about 0.015$/canadian/year. There's 4 case in Alberta. Let say that there's around 45 cases in Canada. That give us around 0.68$/canadian/year. I think that life is worth more than that.

500 000$ for a year worth of pills seem a bit expensive to me. It will surely cost less in time and there's probably place for negociation and/or alternatives.

>Everyone - even you - draws the line somewhere. What do you think about this?
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>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/02/28/pare-drug.html