The law, his own actions in the PBS and across the health system, as well as those of his predecessors, mean the minister does not get to absolve himself of responsibility for the fact patients are regularly forced to wait for one, two or three years for new medicines to navigate the reimbursement process.
The minister needs to do his job on access to medicines
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