A sprawling institutional structure has been created in the 38 years since the parliament legislated the framework that explicitly excluded patients from PBS decision-making. It took 11 years to add one consumer representative and another 17 years to add a second. It is the definition of an afterthought, but why would anyone be surprised?
Patients do not live their condition as aggregated economic models
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