Lessons from the Quebec Universal Prescription Drug Insurance Program finds that Quebec’s universal pharmacare system, which relies on both a public plan and private insurance providers, covers more drugs and provides quicker access to new medicines than other Canadian provinces. For example, of all the drugs approved by Health Canada from 2008 to 2017, 33.4 per cent are listed on Quebec’s public formulary compared to 25.6 per cent in other provinces (on average).