It’s time to better support the three million Canadians with a rare disease

After finding out her private health insurer would no longer pay for a drug helping with her cystic fibrosis, Lilia Zaharieva decided to sell everything she owned to stay on the medication. “But the drug cost more than $250,000 a year and a friend told me, ‘You own two boxes of books and you don’t even have a car,” recalls Ms. Zaharieva, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 2.

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2021-11-26 11:00:00