A PharmaDispatch analysis of 67 monthly PBS schedule updates going back to October 2013 (there was no update published in March 2017) reveals that, while the Coalition may have added over "2,000 new or amended items on the PBS", over 2,200 PBS items and brands have been deleted.

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