From the Montreal Gazette:
Drug plan needs a prescription
Quebec's public drug-insurance plan started out five years and billions of dollars ago as a worthy initiative to make sure all Quebecers had access to needed medicines. In introducing it, the Parti Quebecois government wanted two things: to burnish its image as a friend to the impoverished and, in an apparent paradox, to have a greater proportion of Quebecers pay into a drug plan.