Mark Butler is just the latest in a long line of health ministers to deploy this strategy, which reveals a passive-aggressive mindset towards access. It conditionalises government approaches to funding medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and other health technologies.
A statement with intent that limits expectations and frames reform as a one-sided trade-off
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