The PBS is quietly cannibalising itself. As more of the medicine spending shifts to patients, the system is losing the very public funding base it needs to remain affordable, equitable, and innovative. Put simply, it needs more money.
The opportunity for advocacy to shift from marginal reform to structural sustainability
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