Pfizer is urging the Albanese Government to use the 2026–27 Budget to reverse what it describes as chronic underinvestment in the PBS, warning that Australia is falling behind comparable countries on access to innovative medicines and vaccines and squandering large productivity gains in the process.
Pfizer calls for Budget shift, citing missed medicines and the impact of lost productivity
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