In 2026, it is approaching one dollar in every four, or 25 per cent of the market. That is not the over 100 million PBS prescriptions that attract no subsidy. It is the private market that exists outside the PBS framework. …
Private prescription market heads towards $4 billion as PBS spending stalls
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