Apart from the paranoid wealthy (sales of an anti-anthrax drug, Cipro, boomed in Manhattan after the anthrax attacks there in 2001), few people will fork out for a supply of pharmaceutical insurance.
In the past week, the Canadian government threatened to buy generic forms of Cipro from other drug companies, but it, too, reached an agreement to rely on Bayer to supply the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and only use generic drugs if the company can't deliver.