Nothing currently in dispute alters the fact that the industry groups agreed to a shift in the use of legal these terms which delivers a dramatic and probably irreversible expansion in the government's power to extract price reductions from companies with PBS-listed medicines.
Why would it take these powers if it did not intend to use them?
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