At its meeting this week, the PBAC will consider the 'discount rate' but as the national expert advisory body on medicines is not lawfully allowed to provide advice on treatments in the National Medical Stockpile or many of the new therapeutic interventions emerging from company pipelines. What is the real problem?
This legal quirk of history is a much bigger problem than the 'discount rate'
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