Australia has already spent hundreds of millions over the past 36 months after raising the prices of 950 PBS medicines in 2022 to secure supply in a challenging global environment. If global pressure now forces higher prices for other medicines, so be it, but of course, it would be just another stop-gap solution for a system built on a terrible patient-loathing law. …
Australia can increase prices in response to pressure, as it did just 36 months ago for 950 medicines
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