Creating a national pharmacare program could slash more than $10.7-billion off Canada's $25-billion-a-year drug bill, according to a new study that dismisses out-of-hand the notion that a public drug plan is unaffordable.

"Canadians cannot afford not to have universal pharmacare," said Marc-André Gagnon, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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