New Generic Pricing Rules Come to Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The governments of both Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick have launched new generic drug policies to bring prices more in line with those paid by other Canadian provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador has been paying around 60% of brand-name prices for generics, according to the provincial government. Effective April 16, 2012, prices were lowered to 45%; they will go to 40% on October 1 this year and then to 35% on April 1, 2013. New Brunswick has the same goal, but will move more quickly. Generic drug prices are to drop to 40% of the brand-name price in June and to 35% in December. Current prices are 50% to 70% of the brand-name equivalent, the government says. Although the 2 provinces have similar objectives and price targets, the new generic policies are generally playing out differently with pharmacists in each of the jurisdictions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".