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The General Public’s Willingness to Pay for Tax Increases to Support Unrestricted Access to an Alzheimer’s Disease Medication

Abstract

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder highlighted by progressive declines in cognitive and functional abilities.Objective: Our objective was to assess the general public’s maximum willingness to pay MWTP for an increase in annual personal income taxes to fund unrestricted access to AD medications.Methods: We randomly recruited 500 Canadians nationally and used computer-assisted telephone interviewing to administer …

Authors

Oremus M; Tarride J-E; Raina P; Thabane L; Foster G; Goldsmith CH; Clayton N

Journal

PharmacoEconomics, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 1085–1095

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

November 2012

DOI

10.2165/11594180-000000000-00000

ISSN

1170-7690