The combination of circumstances confronting the sector must be unprecedented - 20 per cent growth in spending on the PBS, but actually no growth, a policy requirement to offset the cost of all new listings driven by impossible fiscal circumstances, with an existing $2 billion hole in health spending, against the backdrop of the Turnbull government's innovation agenda and commitment to fund new medicines. What does it all mean?
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