How long will it take the Department of Finance to question the reimbursement of non-facilitated medicines? If a new medicine does not provide a substantial clinical benefit and does not address an unmet need, why should it be reimbursed in a timely fashion, or at all? This discussion inside government is inevitable.
Formal consideration of rationing now a matter of time
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