Mark Butler's decision to 'respectfully' write to the PBAC to ask that it reconsider its previous advice on the GSK therapies was an unnecessary but subtle and entirely legitimate exercise of this ministerial power over PBS decision-making.
The minister did not need the committee's advice to reverse these changes
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