“This year, it’s more than $12 billion. Triple the spending in just five years. Today that stream of the NDIS is costing about the same as what we spend in net terms on the entire Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme," said Health Minister Mark Butler.
'Measures we’ve introduced to control spending are simply not working as we intended'
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